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Tunisian Writers
This is a list of Tunisian writers * Ines Abassi, poet * Mohamed Bacha (1968– ) linguist. specialist in Tunisian Arabic. translator. short story writer * Faouzia Aloui (1958– ), poet and short story writer * Mahmoud Aslan (1902–after 1971) * Hachemi Baccouche (1916–2008), novelist and essayist * Hélé Béji (1948– ), novelist and essayist in French * Tahar Bekri (1951– ), poet in French and Arabic * Noura Bensaad, novelist and short story writer * Messaouda Boubaker (1954– ), novelist and short story writer * Hédi Bouraoui (1932– ), poet, novelist and academic * Aïcha Chaibi, novelist * Rachida el-Charni (1967– ), novelist and short story writer * Brahim Dargouthi (1955– ), novelist and member of steering committee of Union of Tunisian Writers * 'Ali al-Du'aji (1909–1949), novelist * Aboul-Qacem Echebbi (1909–1934), poet * Miled Faiza (1974– ), poet and translator * Mohamed Ghozzi (1949– ), poet and critic * Sophie el Goulli (1932–2015), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunisia
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Mohamed Ghozzi
Mohamed Ghozzi ( ar, محمد الغزي; born 24 February 1949, Kairouan) is a Tunisian poet and critic, known for his poems with rich allusions for Sufism and childhood. He has also written many tales and several plays.Abdul Kader El-Janabi and Bernard Noël, ''Anthropology of the modern arab poem'', éd. Maisonneuve & Larose, Paris, 1999, p. 142 Publications Poetry * ''The Book of the Water, The Book of the '', Tunis, 1982 * ''He Has so Much Given, I Have Little Taken'', Tunis, 1991 (Abou el Kacem Chebbi Award in Tunis ''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 ...) * ''The Little I Had Taken Is Considerable'', Tunis, 1999 * ''There is an Other Light'', Beyrouth, 2007 * ''Night Poems'', Tunis, 2007 Plays * ''Ibnou Rochd ( Averroès)'' (First Award at Theater Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amel Mokhtar
Amel Mokhtar (; born February 4, 1964) is a Tunisian journalist and novelist. She has won several prizes, including the COMAR Special Prize in 2006 for her novel ''Māystrū'' (Maestro). Biography Mokhtar was born in the town of Maktar in the Siliana Governorate, Tunisia ) , image_map = Tunisia location (orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = Location of Tunisia in northern Africa , image_map2 = , capital = Tunis , largest_city = capital , .... She completed a bachelor's degree in Natural Science at the University of Tunis and began a career in journalism in 1985. Mokhtar published many short stories in Tunisian newspapers and Arab literary magazines. She published her first novel, ''Nakhab al-hāyat'', in 1993 with Dar al-Adab in Beirut; she was the first Tunisian woman to publish with this prestigious press. She then published a short story collection entitled ''La ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Memmi
Albert Memmi ( ar, ألبير ممّي; 15 December 1920 – 22 May 2020) was a French-Tunisian writer and essayist of Tunisian-Jewish origins. Biography Memmi was born in Tunis, French Tunisia in December 1920, to a Tunisian Jewish Berber mother, Maïra (or Marguerite) Sarfati, and a Tunisian-Italian Jewish father, Fradji (or Fraji, or François) Memmi, and grew up speaking French and Tunisian-Judeo-Arabic. During the Nazi occupation of Tunisia, Memmi was imprisoned in a forced labor camp from which he later escaped. Memmi was educated in French primary schools, and continued on to the Carnot high school in Tunis, the University of Algiers where he studied philosophy, and finally the Sorbonne in Paris. Albert Memmi found himself at the crossroads of three cultures, and based his work on the difficulty of finding a balance between the East and the West. Parallel with his literary work, he pursued a career as a teacher, first as a teacher at the Carnot high school in Tunis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmoud Messadi
Mahmoud Messadi ( aeb, محمود المسعدي; 28 January 1911– 16 December 2004) was a Tunisian author and intellectual who also served as Minister of Education and Minister of Culture. He is one of the most prominent Tunisian novelists of the 20th century. Life and Education Messadi was born in Tazarka, Nabeul Governorate, Tunisia. His education began in the village Quranic school, where he memorized part of the Qur’an before starting primary school in Korba. He then completed high school in the Sadiqi Institute in Tunis in 1933. In the same year, he enrolled at the Sorbonne University in Paris to study Arabic language and literature. He graduated in 1936 and then began preparing his first PhD dissertation on Abu Nuwas, as well as a second on the rhythm of classical Arabic poetry. He finished the first dissertation, but the Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamila Mejri
Jamila Mejri ( ar, جميلة الماجري, born ''Jamila Mejri Soudani''; 1951 in Kairouan) is a Tunisian poet. She won the Aboul-Qacem Echebbi prize, in 2005 for her 38 poems, ''Dhakiratou Attaïer''. She is the first woman to be elected President of the Union of Tunisian Writers Union commonly refers to: * Trade union, an organization of workers * Union (set theory), in mathematics, a fundamental operation on sets Union may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * Union (band), an American rock group ** ''Un ... at the Congress of December 2008. Works References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mejri, Jamila 1951 births People from Kairouan Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdelwahab Meddeb
Abdelwahab Meddeb ( aeb, عبد الوهاب المدب; 1946 – 5 November 2014) was a French-language writer and cultural critic, and a professor of comparative literature at the University of Paris X-Nanterre. Biography and career Meddeb was born in Tunis, French Tunisia, in 1946, into a learned and patrician milieu. His family's origins stretch from Tripoli and Yemen on his mother's side, to Spain and Morocco on his father's side. Raised in a traditionally observant Maghrebi Muslim family, Meddeb began learning the Qur'an at the age of four from his father, Sheik Mustapha Meddeb, a scholar of Islamic law at the Zitouna, the great mosque and university of Tunis. At the age of six he began his bilingual education at the Franco-Arabic school that was part of the famous Collège Sadiki. Thus began an intellectual trajectory nourished, in adolescence, by the classics of both Arabic and French and European literatures. In 1967, Meddeb moved to Paris to continue his university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamia Makaddam
Lamia Makaddam ( ar, لمياء المقدم) (born 1971 in Sousse) is a Tunisian poet, journalist and translator. Biography Lamia Makaddam was born in 1971 in Sousse, Tunisia. She began writing poetry at an early age and, despite having no female mentors in poetry, was encouraged by her family and teachers in her writing. She published her first poem in the leftist newspaper ''Badil''. She has written two books of poetry, and her work has been translated into English, French, Dutch, and Kurdish. She was awarded the al-Hijara Literary Prize in the Netherlands in 2000. She has an MA in Arabic language and literature and, in addition to writing, works as a translator. She has lived in the Netherlands for 20 years and currently lives in Amsterdam. Awards * al-Hijara Literary Prize, the Netherlands, 2000 Selected works Books of poetry * ''Intahā hāḏahi al-qaṣīda .. intahā hāḏā al-ḥubb'' (''This poem is done, this love is done''), 2015 * ''Biṭaʻm al-fākih ... [...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] |
Bashir Khrayyef
Bashir Khrayyef ( ar, البشير خريٌف, translit=al-Bashīr Khurayyif; April 10, 1917 – December 17, 1983) was a Tunisian writer, considered "the father of the realist novel in Tunisia." He is known for his harshly realistic descriptions of Tunisian society as well as for his use of Tunisian Arabic in the dialogues of his novels. Early life and education Khrayyef was born on April 10, 1917, in Nefta, government of Tozeur in southwest Tunisia. He came from a literary family; his brother was the poet Mustafa Khrayyef. Writing career Khrayyef's most famous historical novel, ("Night Lightning," 1961) is set in Tunis during 16th-century Hafsid rule. The novel treats the topics of slavery and racism through the love story of the protagonist, a black slave. Arguably his most influential novel, ("Dates in their Branches," 1969), is set in an oasis community in the southwest desert of Tunisia in the 1910s–1930s.Masri, Safwan. ''Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly''. New York: Columb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibn Khaldoun
Ibn Khaldun (; ar, أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, ; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732-808 AH) was an Arab The Historical Muhammad', Irving M. Zeitlin, (Polity Press, 2007), p. 21; "It is, of course, Ibn Khaldun as an Arab here speaking, for he claims Arab descent through the male line.". The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State', Halim Barakat (University of California Press, 1993), p. 48;"The renowned Arab sociologist-historian Ibn Khaldun first interpreted Arab history in terms of badu versus hadar conflicts and struggles for power." Ibn Khaldun', M. Talbi, ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam'', Vol. III, ed. B. Lewis, V.L. Menage, C. Pellat, J. Schacht, (Brill, 1986), 825; "Ibn Khaldun was born in Tunis, on I Ramadan 732/27 May 1332, in an Arab family which came originally from the Hadramawt and had been settled at Seville since the beginning of the Muslim conquest...." Ibn Khaldun's Philosophy of History: A Study in the Philos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fethia Hechmi
Fethia Hechmi () (b. 1955) is a Tunisian novelist. She published her first collection of poems entitled ''al-Uqḥuwān al-maṣlūb alā al-shifah'' in 2002, and her first novel ''Ḥāfiyat al-rūḥ'' (novel) in 2002. Her 2009 novel ''Maryam tasquṭ min yadd Allāh'' has been recognized for its experimental style. She was active in the 2011 Tunisian revolution and has been a prominent voice on Tunisian politics since then. Works Novels * (2005) ''Ḥāfiyat al-rūḥ'' ( (Bare-footed soul)) * (2007) ''Minnah Mawwāl'' () * (2009) ''Maryam tasquṭ min yadd Allāh'' ( (Maryam falls from the hand of God)) * (2016) ''al-ʿAnkabūt lā yaḥrus al-ʾanbiyāʾ dāʾiman'' ( (The spider does not always guard prophets)) Poetry * (2002) ''al-Uqḥuwān al-maṣlūb alā al-shifah ('' (A daisy crucified on lips)) Short story collections * (2012) ''al-Shayṭān yaʿūd min al-manfā'' ( (Satan returns from exile)) Prizes * (2009) Credif Prize for Best Writing by a Tun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
