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COMAR D'Or
The COMAR d'Or is a series of Tunisian literary prizes created in 1996 by the Compagnie méditerranéenne d'assurances et de réassurances (COMAR), with the support of the Tunisian Ministry of Culture. The first award was given in 1997. Presented in April of each year at the Municipal Theater of Tunis, or at the Palais des Congrès in 2016 and 2017, these prizes award novels written in French or Arabic by Tunisian authors and published in the previous year. There are three levels of award: the main COMAR d'Or prize, the Committee's Special Prize and the Discovery Prize (for new authors). Current and past winners {, class="wikitable centre" !Round !Language !Comar d'or !Committee's Special Prize !Discovery !Other Prizes , - , rowspan="2" , 2019 , Arabic , ''Lella Sayda'' by Tarek Chibani , ''Sakakine Aamya'' by Abdelkader Alimi , ''Maazak Tchaïkovski'' by Chawki Barnoussi , - , - , French , ''Jugurtha, un contre-portrait'' by Rafik Darragi and ''La princesse de Bizerte'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Culture (Tunisia)
The Ministry of Culture of Tunisia ) , image_map = Tunisia location (orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = Location of Tunisia in northern Africa , image_map2 = , capital = Tunis , largest_city = capital , ... ( ar, وزارة الثقافة), established in 1961, is responsible for the government and general planning and running of cultural enterprises and pursuits in the country. Its headquarters are at Rue du 2-Mars 1934 in Tunis. The current Minister of Culture is Hayet Guettat. The ministry had a budget of 170,735 million (TND). Ministers References Government ministries of Tunisia 1961 establishments in Tunisia {{Culture-ministry-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Presse De Tunisie
''La Presse'', founded in 1934, is a large-circulation French-language daily newspaper published in Tunis, Tunisia. History ''La Presse de Tunisie'' was founded in 1934 by Henri Smadja, a Tunisian and French Jewish doctor and lawyer, born in Tunisia, who went on to become the owner of the daily newspaper ''Combat''. The paper, based in Tunis, was close to the Constitutional Democratic Rally. Its sister paper is Arabic newspaper ''Assahafah''. Before the 2010-2011 Tunisian protests ''La Presse de Tunisie'' was published by a state-owned publishing company. As a result of these protests, the newspaper transformed from being seen as propaganda for Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's government to having editorial independence from the government. However, the owner of the daily is the government of Tunisia The politics of Tunisia takes place within the framework of a unitary semi-presidential representative democratic republic, with a President serving as head of state, Prime Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ines Abassi
Ines Abassi (born 1982) is a Tunisian poet and journalist. She has published two volumes of poetry to date, both of which have received regional literary awards. She also spent a six-month residency in Seoul and wrote ''Tales of the Korean Scheherezade'' out of that experience. Her work has been published in numerous outlets including the literary magazine ''Banipal'', where her work was included in an issue devoted to Modern Tunisian Literature. Abassi currently works as a journalist in the UAE The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th .... Works * ''Secrets of the Wind'' (2004), collection of poetry, winner of the Tunisian Poetry Prize * ''Archive of Blind'' (2007), collection of poetry, winner of the CREDIF prize, Tunis * ''Tales of the Korean Scheherezade'' (2010) Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawzia Zouari
Fawzia Zouari ( ar, فوزية الزواري), born 10 September 1955 in Dahmani, is a Tunisian writer and journalist. Biography She was born in Dahmani, about 30 kilometers south-east of Kef, south-west of Tunis, one of six sisters and four brothers. Her father is a sheikh, landowner and justice of the peace. She is the first of the girls not to be married during adolescent and to be able to carry out tertiary studies. She continued her studies at the faculty of Tunis aquelle? Then in Paris. A doctor in French literature from the Sorbonne, Zouari has lived in Paris since 1979. She worked for ten years at the Institut du monde arabe in various positions including editor of the magazine Qantara – before becoming a journalist for the weekly magazine Jeune Africa in 1963. The ''Caravan of the chimeras'', published in 1989 and which takes up the subject of her thesis, is devoted to the journey of Valentine de Saint-Point, grand-niece of Alphonse de Lamartine, a muse of Futurism, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shukri Mabkhout
Shukri Mabkhout, also transcribed Choukri Mabkhout, ( ar, شكري المبخوت, translit=Shukrī al-Mabkhūt; born 1962) is a Tunisian academic, critic and novelist. His 2014 debut novel, ''al-Talyānī'' ( The Italian), won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the "Arab Booker") and has been translated into English and Italian. Biography He was born in Tunis, and obtained a PhD in literature from the Manouba University. He has written several works of literary criticism and sits on the board of several literary journals. Professor at the University of Tunis, he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Arts and Humanities of La Manouba before becoming president of Manouba University (2011-2017). Director of the 33rd and the 34rd edition of the Tunis International Book Fair, he is also a member of the editorial board of several refereed journals, including ''Ibla'' magazine (published by the Institute of Arabic Literature in Tunis) and ''Romano Arabica'' (published by The Centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emna Belhadj Yahia
Emna Belhadj Yahia or Emna Belhaj Yahia (Arabic: آمنة بلحاج يحي) was born on September 30, 1945, in Tunis. She is a Tunisian teacher, philosopher and writer in French. Biography Born on September 30, 1945, in Tunis, from a family of theologians by her mother as well as from a family of wealthy traders by her father. She studied Philosophy in France, then obtained a diploma of high studies in Philosophy at the faculty of Letters in Paris. She enrolled as PhD student at " l'École pratique des hautes études", with Jacques Berque, but she did not finish this course. The events of May '68 took place simultaneously at her university trip. Afterwards, she taught Philosophy a few years in Tunisia, before being the scientific director at the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts. She was also a member of a feminist group, and later of the Tunisian League for Human Rights, before devoting herself to writing. After the Tunisian Revolution of 2011, and the year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azza Filali
Azza Filali (born 1952, in Tunisia) is a Tunisian doctor and writer in the French language. Her novels and stories especially reflect the history of the last years of colonialism in Tunisia Career Azza Filali was born around 1952 in Tunisia and trained in the medical field of Gastroenterology. In 2012 she published the novel ''Ouatann,'' reflecting the era of pre-revolutionary Tunisia in 2008. With this work, she received the Golden Comar Awards in 2012. In February 2012 she organized a colloquium with the French Institute on writing about themes in post-revolutionary Tunisia. In 2014 she published ''Les Intranquilles'' in which she narrates a story with the background of the Tunisian revolution of 2011. Her three women protagonists in ''Les Intranquilles'' were the reflection of the struggle of Tunisian women for their freedom during the revolutionary period. The novel was revised in 2015. Besides being a doctor and writer, Azza Filali since 2011 has also collaborated in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moncef Ouahibi
Muhammad Al-Moncef Al-Wahaibi (born 20 December 1949 Hajib el-Ayounin, Tunisia) is a Tunisian poet, writer and academic. Education and Academic Career Muhammad Al-Moncef Al-Wahaibi was born in Hajeb El-Ayoun in the Kairouan governorate of Tunisia. He obtained his master's degree with the thesis "The visible body and the imagined body in the poetry of Adonis;" his PhD thesis at the Manouba University was on "The poetry industry of Abu Tammam and its components: in reading ancient and poetic text." He works as a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Kairouan and University of Sousse, Tunisia. He is a member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts - Beit Al-Hikma. Writing In 1996, Ouahibi wrote and wrote the script for the fictional documentary "Oh A Country Like Me," directed by Hisham Al-Jarbi, which centers around the 1914 visit of painter Paul Klee to Tunis, Hammamet and Kairouan. He co-wrote the film “Waiting for Ibn Rushd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassouna Mosbahi
Hassouna Mosbahi ( ar, حسونة المصباحي) (born 1950 in Dhehibat, Kairouan) is a Tunisian author, literary critic and freelance journalist. Biography Hassouna Mosbahi was born in 1950 in the village of Dhehibat in the governorate of Kairouan, Tunisia, and studied French at the Tunis University. He suffered persecution at the hands of the government of Habib Bourghiba and so sought refuge in Europe, moving to Munich, Germany in 1985. He returned to Tunisia in 2004. He has published four collections of short stories and six novels and has been translated into German and English. He has also published dozens of translations of French literary works into Arabic. His work has won several literary prizes, including the Munich Fiction Prize (for the German translation of his novel ''Tarshish Hallucination),'' and the 2016 Mohamed Zefzef Prize for Fiction (for his novel ''A Tunisian Tale''). In 2010 he refused a "Judges' Choice" prize from the Prix Littéraires COMAR D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amor Ben Salem
,''AbouJahl Addahhas'' ( ar, أبو جهل الدّهّاس Amor Ben Salem ( aeb, عمر بن سالم) is a Tunisian Arabic writer. Biography Amor Ben Salem was born in the village of Métouia in the southeastern province of Gabes in Tunisia where he attended his primary education and secondary education in Gabes. He obtained a diploma in philosophy from Tunis in 1957 after which he flew to Cairo to attend journalism courses at the University of Cairo from 1958 to 1959. He then flew to Beirut to commence his higher education at the High Teachers Institution ( Lebanese University), obtaining his bachelor's and master's degrees in the Arabic language and literature in 1960. Upon his return to Tunisia, he had taught in several high schools until 1965, the same year in which he traveled to France to join the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle to commence his doctorate degree in Arabic grammar, which he completed in 1968 and returned to Tunisia. He pursued his passion in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boubaker Ayadi
Boubaker Ayadi ( ar, أبوبكر العيادي), also spelled Aboub-baker Al-Ayadi (born March 6, 1949, in Jendouba) is a Tunisian author. Boubaker has lived in Paris since 1988 and has published several books in Arabic and French. Biography Boubaker completed high school in Jendouba and attended university in Tripoli, Besançon then Paris. He has been a teacher since October 1967. He wrote for the Tunisian newspaper ''al-Sabah'' from 1980 to 1987. Selected works * ''The Sultan dream'' (Arabic), 2006 * ''The naked man'' (Arabic), 2009 * ''Asfour le devin'' (French), 2010 * ''The Omen'' 2007 (French), 2008 See also * Maghrebian community of Paris The Paris metropolitan area has a large Maghrebi population, in part as a result of French colonial ties to that region. As of 2012 the majority of those of African origin living in Paris come from the Maghreb, including Algeria, Morocco, and Tu ... References Living people Tunisian writers 1949 births People from Jendo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustapha Tlili
Mustapha Tlili (Tunisian Arabic: مصطفى التليلي; born 17 October 1937 – 20 October 2017) was a Tunisian novelist. Born in Fériana, Tunisia, Mustapha Tlili was educated at the Sorbonne and in the United States. He worked at the United Nations from 1967 to 1982. Tlili died on 20 October 2017, aged 80. Works * ''La rage aux tripes'' isceral Anger 1975 * ''Le bruit dort'' he Noise Sleeps 1978 * ''Gloire des sables'' lory of the Sands 1982 * (ed. with Jacques Derrida) ''For Nelson Mandela'', New York: Seaver Books, 1987 * ''La montagne du lion'' ion Mountain Paris: Gallimard, 1988. Translated by Linda Coverdale Linda Coverdale is a literary translator from French. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and has a Ph.D in French Literature. She has translated into English more than 60 works by such authors as Roland Barthes, Emmanuel Carrère, Patrick Chamoiseau, ... as ''Lion Mountain'', New York: Arcade Pub., 1990. References 1937 births 2017 deaths Tunisian novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
