List of Tunisian writers

This is a list of Tunisian writers

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

• 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

• List of African writers by country

References

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.