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Hassouna Mosbahi

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Hassouna Mosbahi

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1950 （Dhehibat, Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia）
Died
2025-06-04 （Tunisia） age 75
Nationality
Tunisian
Languages
Arabic, French
Residence History
Dhehibat, Tunisia → Tunis, Tunisia → Munich, Germany → Hammamet, Tunisia

Career

Occupations
author, literary critic, freelance journalist
Active Years
1995-2025
Nominations
Prix Littéraires COMAR D’OR 2010 Judges' Choice (refused)

Education

Tunis University
French
Country: Tunisia
French literature

Awards

Toucan Fiction Prize
2000
Work: Tarshish Hallucination
Organization: Munich
Result: 受賞
Mohamed Zefzef Prize for Fiction
2016
Work: A Tunisian Tale
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

A Tunisian Tale

2008 novel

A novel depicting a Tunisian tale.

Tunisian society
Translations
  • English (translated by Max Weiss, 2012)

Oleander

2004 novel

Novel featuring oleander.

Translations
  • German (Der grüne Esel, trans. Regina Karachouli, 2013)

A Farewell to Rosalie

2001 novel

A novel about farewell to Rosalie.

Translations
  • German (Adieu Rosalie, trans. Erdmute Heller, 2004)

Tarshish Hallucination

1995 novel

Novel on Tarshish hallucination.

Translations
  • German (Rückkehr nach Tarschisch, trans. Regina Karachouli)

Bibliography

  • Miḥan tūnisiyya (Tunisian afflictions), 2017
  • Baḥṯan ʻan al-saʻāda (Searching for happiness), 2017
  • ʼAšwāk wa-yāsamīn (Thorns and jasmine), 2015
  • La nasbahou fi enahri maratayn, 2020
  • Yatīm al-dahr (Orphan of an era), 2012
  • Ramād al-ḥayāh (Ashes of life), 2009
  • Hikāyat tūnisiyya (A Tunisian tale), 2008
  • Nuwwārat al-diflā (Oleander), 2004
  • Wadāʻan Rawzālī (A farewell to Rosalie), 2001
  • al-ʼAḵirūn (The Others), 1998
  • Halwasāt Taršīš (Tarshish hallucination), 1995
  • Haḏayān fī al-ṣaḥrāʼ (Dessert mirages), 2014
  • al-Sulaḥfāh (The Tortoise), 1997, 2000
  • Hikāyat junūn ibnat ʻammī Hanniya (A story of my cousin Hanniya's insanity), 1986
  • Laylat al-ḡurabāʼ (Night of strangers), 1997

Translations by Author

  • Dozens of translations of French literary works into Arabic

Legacy

Prominent Tunisian Arabic-language author, novelist, literary critic, and journalist. Lived in exile in Germany before returning to Tunisia. Won several literary prizes, with works translated into German and English.