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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 Scheher ...

, poet * Mohamed Bacha (1968– ) linguist. specialist in Tunisian Arabic. translator. short story writer * Faouzia Aloui (1958– ), poet and short story writer *

Mahmoud Aslan Mahmoud Aslan (Arabic: محمد أصلان), (1902 – after 1971) was an active participant in literary life during the French protectorate of Tunisia. He produced numerous novels, short stories, and plays. He was also the founder of the journal "' ...

(1902–after 1971) * Hachemi Baccouche (1916–2008), novelist and essayist *

Hélé Béji Hélé Béji ( ar, هالة الباجي; born 1 April 1948) is a Tunisian writer. Biography The daughter of Tunisian politician , she was born in Tunis, passed her Agrégation de lettres modernes and went on to teach literature at the Universit ...

(1948– ), novelist and essayist in French *

Tahar Bekri Tahar Bekri (born 1951) is a Paris-based Tunisian poet and literary critic. Early life Tahar Bekri was born on July 7, 1951, in Gabès, Tunisia. Career Bekri has taught Literature of the Maghreb at Paris 13 University Sorbonne Paris North Uni ...

(1951– ), poet in French and Arabic * Noura Bensaad, novelist and short story writer *

Messaouda Boubaker Messaouda Boubaker ()(born 19 February 1954) is a Tunisian novelist and short story writer who writes in Arabic. After the Tunisian Revolution, Boubaker joined the country's civil society organizations as a political activist. In response to a yo ...

(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 Aboul-Qacem Echebbi ( ar, أبو القاسم الشابي, ; 24 February 1909 – 9 October 1934) was a Tunisian poet. He is probably best known for writing the final two verses of the current National Anthem of Tunisia, ''Humat al-Hima'' (''De ...

(1909–1934), poet *

Miled Faiza Miled Faiza ( ar, ميلاد فايزه, translit=Mīlād Fāyzah; born 1974) is a Tunisian-American writer. Career Miled Faiza was born in Monastir, Tunisia in 1974. He published his first book of poetry in 2004 and his poetry has been transl ...

(1974– ), poet and translator *

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 an ...

(1949– ), poet and critic * Sophie el Goulli (1932–2015), novelist and art historian *

Gisèle Halimi Gisèle Halimi (born Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb; 27 July 1927 – 28 July 2020) was a Tunisian-French lawyer, politician, essayist and Feminism in France, feminist activist. Biography Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb was born in La Goulette, Tunisi ...

(1927–2020), lawyer, feminist activist and essayist * Faraj Hawwar (1954– ), writer, novelist, and researcher * Fethia Hechmi (1955– ), novelist, short story writer and poet *

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 ...

(1332–1406), polymath * Bashir Khrayyef (1917–1983), writer and teacher *

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 ...

(1962– ), novelist and academic * Lamia Makaddam (1971– ), poet * Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946– ), novelist and poet * Jamila Mejri (1951– ), poet *

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 t ...

(1911–2004), novelist and playwright *

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 ...

(1920–2020), sociologist, novelist and essayist * Amel Mokhtar (1964– ), novelist and journalist * Amel Moussa, poet and journalist *

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 ...

(1950– ), novelist and short story writer *

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 Tun ...

(1949– ), poet *

Perpetua Perpetua and Felicity ( la, Perpetua et Felicitas) were Christian martyrs of the 3rd century. Vibia Perpetua was a recently married, well-educated noblewoman, said to have been 22 years old at the time of her death, and mother of an infant son s ...

(died 203), writer of a prison diary from

Carthage Carthage was the capital city of Ancient Carthage, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classi ...

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The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity ''The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity'' ( la, Passio sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis) is a diary by Vibia Perpetua describing her imprisonment as a Christian in 203, completed after her death by a redactor. It is one of the oldest and ...

'' * Najwa Al-Rayyahi (1962– ) writer and academic * Kamel Riahi (1974– ), novelist and short story writer * Youssef Rzouga (1957– ), poet * Amina Saïd (1953– ), poet * Habib Selmi (1951– ), novelist and short story writer * Walid Soliman (1975– ), writer, essayist and translator * Alia Tabaï, novelist *

Ahmad al-Tifashi Ahmad al-Tifashi whose full name is Shihab al-Din Abu al-Abbās Aḥmad ibn Yusuf al-Ḳaysi al-Tifachi (), born in Tifash, a village near Gafsa in Tunisia (1184 – died 1253 in Cairo) was an Arabic poet, writer, and anthologist, best known for hi ...

(–1253), poet, writer and anthologist *

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 Unit ...

(1937–2017), novelist and academic *

Mohamed Ali Yousfi Mohamed Ali Yousfi ( aeb, محمد علي اليوسفي) (born March 3, 1950 in Béja, Tunisia) is a Tunisian writer and translator. Life After obtaining his master's degree in philosophy and social sciences, he completed his postgraduate stud ...

, writer and translator * Z (active as of 2007), anonymous political cartoonist and writer *

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 brot ...

, writer and journalist *

Mohamed El Aziz Ben Achour Mohamed El Aziz Ben Achour (Arabic: محمد العزيز بن عاشور) is a Tunisian politician and historian born on 5 January 1951; he specializes in urban, social and cultural history of modern Tunisia and the Islamic civilization. He was ...

(1951– ), writer, historian, and politician

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