Sophie el Goulli

Sophie el Goulli
Born	(1932-02-04)4 February 1932 Sousse, Tunisia
Died	10 October 2015(2015-10-10) (aged 83)
Occupation	Writer, art historian
Nationality	Tunisian
Citizenship	Tunisia
Education	Sorbonne
Subject	Film

Sophie el Goulli (4 February 1932 – 10 October 2015) was a Tunisian writer and art historian.[1]

She was born in Sousse and was educated at the Sorbonne. El Goulli worked for the Tunisian Ministry of Culture and taught art history at the University of Tunis.[2] She also has contributed to the cinematic arts journal SeptièmArt.[1] She retired in 1993, and moved to Tunis.[3] She died on 10 October 2015.[4]

El Gouilli established the Tunisian film library.[5] She received the Prix Culturel du Cinéma in 1991 and the Prix national de la Critique in 1992.[3]

Selected works[1]

• Signes, poetry (1973)
• Ammar Farhat, monograph (1979)
• Nos rêves, poetry for children (1980)[5]
• Vertige solaire, poetry (1981)[5]
• Les mystères de Tunis, novel (1993)
• Peinture en Tunisie, art history (1994)

References

1. Gikandi, Simon (2003). Encyclopedia of African Literature. p. 293. ISBN 1134582234.
2. "Sophie el Goulli" (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France.
3. "El Goulli, Sophie". Littératures du Maghreb (in French).
4. "Sophie El Goulli n'est plus : Tunis perd l'un de ses monuments". Kapitalis (in French). 10 October 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
5. Femmmes et poèmes de Tunisie (in French). 1997. p. 53.