They named me without asking my permission.
They bequeathed me their bodies’ curses,
then said,
“This is your heritage.
Live in peace with it and smile!”
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Sunday Submissions: 30 Maghrebs, 30 Years in the Future
Whether dystopian or utopian, fictional or fact-based, we would like you to answer the following question “how do you see your the Maghreb in the next 30 years?”
On Translating a Departure in Tunisian Feminist Writing in Arabic
” I have done my best to show the uniqueness of Ferchichi’s story and her style, exemplified in her rich diction and the dancing words she uses to evoke joy, something like the children who stamp the ground to express their mirth.”
Yasmina Jraissati on Six New Must-Translate Arabic Novels
Among the authors on Jraissati’s fall list, only Dima Wannous doesn’t have a book in English translation.
Ali Znaidi Wins ‘Split This Rock/Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here’ Poetry Translation Contest
I’m alone as usual
but the city is unusually alone.
I watch over its wilderness out of my window.
Nothing but the night and the curfew.
This Year, Women Dominate the Golden Comar, Tunisia’s Top Literary Prize
This year, both of the top prizes were awarded jointly, and three of the four winners were women.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri Wins Leading Swedish Literary Prize for ‘Allt Jag Inte Minns’
“This damn book is a masterpiece.”
Algerian Boualem Sansal and Tunisian Hédi Kaddour Take First French Literary Prize of the Season
“This is apparently the third time that the Academy has awarded its Grand Prize to a pair of novels.”
IPAF Winner Shukri al-Mabkhout: ‘This Is a Novel of Defiance’
“The complexity of recent Tunisian history, and a minute sociological analysis can only be expressed in a novel. Only narration can make sense of the events.”
Tunisia’s 2015 Golden Comar Prizes to Shukri al-Mabkhout, Anouar Attia
Last Saturday, the winners of the 19th annual Golden Comar Prize were announced at the Municipal Theatre of Tunis.
Tunisian Novelist Shukri al-Mabkhout: ‘We Have To Be Merciful Toward Our Intellectuals’
“I didn’t plan to depict “positive” heroes, if we can put it that way, because the era of false heroism has gone.”
Tunisian Teens Have Until Jan 16 to Apply for University of Iowa Writing Workshop
Each year, the US State Department, which funds the University of Iowa’s “Between the Lines” program, determines which countries are invited to submit nominees. This year it’s Tunisia.
