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.
Tunisia
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.
Tunisian Poet and Essayist Abdelwahab Meddeb, 1946-2014
Tunisian poet and essayist Abdelwahab Meddeb died in Paris on November 5.
Poetry, and Tunisia’s Future
A few weeks before the passage of Tunisia’s historic consensus constitution — which happened last night by an overwhelming 200-12 vote — a number of writers and poets communicated their hopes for Tunisia in an open letter to the newly appointed prime minister. The online magazine Tunisia Live translated these hopes and added some from “street poet” Majd Mastoura.
Understanding a Revolution through Iconography: Tunisian Political Cartoonist_Z_
Neila Columbo recently listened to and met with _Z_, the Tunisian political cartoonist who blogs at http://www.debatunisie.com/.
In Tunisia: The Health of the Book
Today and tomorrow, “Cartooning for Peace” will bring together cartoonists from across Tunisia as the country continues to probe its red lines and limits to freedom of expression. This is against the backdrop of the Tunis International Book Fair, which will run through Nov. 3. Chiara Comito wrote about the fair — and the situation of publishing in Tunisia — on her blog, Editoriaraba.
