Rima Alamuddin was a Lebanese fiction writer. Her first published works appeared in student publications of The American University of Beirut, where Alamuddin received her B.A. in English. She was studying at Girton College, Cambridge, when she was murdered during her summer vacation at her family home in Lebanon in 1963. She had just published a novel, Spring to Summer, written in 1960 when Alamuddin was nineteen years old. The Sun is Silent, a volume comprising two novellas and several short stories, was published posthumously in 1964. Posthumously, her work is included in Hikayat: Short Stories by Lebanese Women. Rima Alammudin's untimely death is briefly referenced to in Rabih Alameddine's novel, I the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters. In her memory Girton College awards the Rima Alamuddin Prize annually for a composition in music, in imaginative literature, or for a musical performance.