Biography
Faten Fazaâ was born and raised in Tunis, Tunisia. She is the daughter of the well-known Tunisian writer and scriptwriter Tahar Fazaa. Following a difficult marriage and divorce, Fazaâ began writing on Facebook in 2013 or 2014, quickly amassing followers who enjoyed her writing and encouraged her. She began to write a screenplay, but her writing was interrupted when she emigrated to Germany. It was after the death of her grandmother, who had raised her, that Fazaa began to write her first novel, ''ʾAsrār ʿāʾilīyah'', as a way of dealing with her grief and connecting with her grandmother. This success took the author by surprise: she recounts that she had never planned to write, and in school she wasn't extraordinary in the subject. She had expected to "sell 300 copies and be done with it." Her following novels were also successful: as of May 2020 she had sold a total of 30,000 books, and her most recent novel's initial run of 5,000 copies sold out is less than a month. Fazaâ has two children and currently lives in Germany.''ʾAsrār ʿāʾilīyah'' (''Family Secrets'')
''Asrār ʿaʾilīyah'' was the first Tunisian Arabic novel written by a woman. It is part of a recent trend of Tunisian novels published in the vernacular language rather thanAwards
* (2018) Derja Association Ali Douagi Prize (for ''ʾAsrār ʿāʾilīyah'') * (2019) Derja Association Abdelaziz Aroui Prize (for ''Wa min al-ḥubb mā fashala'') *(2020) Derja Association Ali Douagi Prize (for ''Sharaʿ al-ḥubb'')Publications
* (2018) ''ʾAsrār ʿāʾilīyah'' ( (Family Secrets)) * (2019) ''Wa-min al-ḥubb mā fashal'' ( (Some Love Fails)) * (2020) ''Sharaʿ al-ḥubb'' ( (The Law of Love)) * (2021) ''Hysteria'' ()References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fazaa, Faten Living people Tunisian novelists 21st-century Tunisian women writers 21st-century Tunisian writers Tunisian writers in Tunisian Arabic Year of birth missing (living people)