Mohamed Ghozzi ( ar, محمد الغزي; born 24 February 1949,
Kairouan
Kairouan (, ), also spelled El Qayrawān or Kairwan ( ar, ٱلْقَيْرَوَان, al-Qayrawān , aeb, script=Latn, Qeirwān ), is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city was founded by th ...
) is a Tunisian
poet
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and
critic
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, known for his poems with rich allusions for
Sufism
Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, r ...
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
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* ''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 in
Charjah)
* ''The Station''
* ''Cicada, Teach Me to Sing''
* ''The Clown''
Children tales
References
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1949 births
20th-century Tunisian poets
People from Kairouan
Living people
21st-century Tunisian poets