List of Tunisian writers

This is a list of Tunisian writers

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* Ines Abassi, poet[Banipal]
* Mohamed Bacha (1968– ) linguist. specialist in Tunisian Arabic. translator. short story writer
* Faouzia Aloui (1958– ), poet and short story writer[Banipal]
* Mahmoud Aslan (1902–after 1971)[Gikandi]
* Hachemi Baccouche (1916–2008), novelist and essayist[Gikandi]
* Hélé Béji (1948– ), novelist and essayist in French[Gikandi]
* Tahar Bekri (1951– ), poet in French and Arabic[Gikandi]
* Noura Bensaad, novelist and short story writer[Banipal]
* Messaouda Boubaker (1954– ), novelist and short story writer[Oxford]
* Hédi Bouraoui (1932– ), poet, novelist and academic
* Aïcha Chaibi, novelist
* Rachida el-Charni (1967– ), novelist and short story writer[Banipal]
* Brahim Dargouthi (1955– ), novelist and member of steering committee of Union of Tunisian Writers
* 'Ali al-Du'aji (1909–1949), novelist[Gikandi]
* Aboul-Qacem Echebbi (1909–1934), poet
* Miled Faiza (1974– ), poet and translator[Banipal]
* Mohamed Ghozzi (1949– ), poet and critic[Banipal]
* Sophie el Goulli (1932–2015), novelist and art historian[Gikandi]
* Gisèle Halimi (1927–2020), lawyer, feminist activist and essayist
* Faraj Hawwar (1954– ), writer, novelist, and researcher
* Fethia Hechmi (1955– ), novelist, short story writer and poet[Oxford]
* Ibn Khaldoun (1332–1406), polymath
* Bashir Khrayyef (1917–1983), writer and teacher[Gikandi]
* Shukri Mabkhout (1962– ), novelist and academic[Oxford]
* Lamia Makaddam (1971– ), poet
* Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946– ), novelist and poet[Gikandi]
* Jamila Mejri (1951– ), poet
* Mahmoud Messadi (1911–2004), novelist and playwright[Gikandi]
* Albert Memmi (1920–2020), sociologist, novelist and essayist[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]
* Amel Mokhtar (1964– ), novelist and journalist[Oxford]
* Amel Moussa, poet and journalist[Banipal]
* Hassouna Mosbahi (1950– ), novelist and short story writer[Banipal]
* Moncef Ouahibi (1949– ), poet[Banipal]
* Perpetua (died 203), writer of a prison diary from Carthage, The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
* Najwa Al-Rayyahi (1962– ) writer and academic
* Kamel Riahi (1974– ), novelist and short story writer[Banipal]
* Youssef Rzouga (1957– ), poet
* Amina Saïd (1953– ), poet
* Habib Selmi (1951– ), novelist and short story writer[Banipal]
* Walid Soliman (1975– ), writer, essayist and translator
* Alia Tabaï, novelist[Allen]
* Ahmad al-Tifashi (–1253), poet, writer and anthologist
* Mustapha Tlili (1937–2017), novelist and academic[Gikandi]
* Mohamed Ali Yousfi, writer and translator[Banipal]
* Z (active as of 2007), anonymous political cartoonist and writer
* Fawzia Zouari, writer and journalist[Banipal]
* Mohamed El Aziz Ben Achour (1951– ), writer, historian, and politician
* Anis Chouchène, (1982– ), poet and activist

## See also[edit]

* List of African writers by country

## References[edit]

1. [Gikandi] Simon Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge; 2002. ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3

2. [Killam & Rowe] Douglas Killam & Ruth Rowe, eds., The Companion to African Literatures. James Currey & Indiana University Press; 2000. ISBN 0-253-33633-3

3. [Banipal] "Modern Tunisian Literature". Banipal. Retrieved 30 April 2018.

4. [WLT] Makaddam, Lamia (May–June 2018). Translated by M. Faiza and K. McNeil. "Two poems". World Literature Today. 92 (3): 28–29. ISSN 0196-3570

5. [Allen] Allen, Roger (1995). The Arabic novel: An historical and critical introduction (2nd ed.). Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-2641-1

6. [Oxford] Mamelouk, Douja (2017-08-10). Hassan, Waïl S. (ed.). Tunisia (in The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions). 1. Oxford University Press. pp. 455–472. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199349791.013.30.

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