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Shukri Mabkhout

シュクリ・マブフート

Shukrī al-Mabkhūt

Aliases: Choukri Mabkhout / Chokri Mabkhout

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1962-01-01 （Tunis, Tunisia）
Nationality
Tunisian
Languages
Arabic, French
Residence History
Tunis, Tunisia → La Manouba / Manouba University

Career

Occupations
novelist, academic, critic, university professor
Active Years
1990-
Affiliations
Manouba University (President, 2011–2017), University of Tunis, Professor, Member of editorial boards of several academic journals
Memberships
Editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals, Higher Committee for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (appointed member)

Education

Manouba University
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Degree: PhD
Year of Graduation: 1992
Country: Tunisia
Earned a PhD in literature. Published academic works and criticism before publishing fiction.

Awards

Tunisian National Book Award
1994
Organization: Tunisian cultural institutions
Result: 受賞
King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Award for Translation
2012
Organization: King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Award for Translation
Result: 受賞
International Prize for Arabic Fiction
2015
Work: Al-Talyānī (The Italian)
Organization: International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Result: 受賞
Tunisian Cultural Prize
2015
Organization: Tunisian cultural bodies
Result: 受賞
COMAR d'Or
2015
Work: Al-Talyānī
Organization: COMAR
Result: 受賞
Commander of the Tunisian Order of Merit
2016
Organization: Government of Tunisia
Result: 叙勲
King Faisal International Prize (Arabic Language and Literature)
2018
Category: アラビア語・文学
Organization: King Faisal Foundation
Result: 受賞
Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award
2018
Organization: Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Al-Talyānī (The Italian)

2014 Novel (political realism)

The plot follows Abdel Nasser (nicknamed "The Italian"), who inexplicably attacks an imam during his father's funeral. Set in Tunisia in the tumultuous late 1980s and early 1990s, the novel examines political clashes between leftists and Islamists, the forces behind Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's rise, and themes of memory, repression and identity.

political conflictmemory and traumaauthoritarianism and repressionidentityreligion and secularism
Translations
  • English translation by Karen McNeil & Miled Faiza, Europa Editions, October 2021
  • Italian translation by Barbara Teresi, Europa Editions, 2017

Bibliography

  • Al-Talyānī (2014)
  • Al-Sayyida al-raʾīsah (Madame President, 2015)
  • Bāghandā (2016)
  • The biography in the book of al-Ayyâm of Tâhâ Husayn (1992, academic)
  • Aesthetics: The text and its readers in classical Arabic poetics (1993, academic)
  • The construction of negation (2006, academic)
  • The assigned meaning (2008, academic)
  • Encyclopedic Dictionary of Pragmatics (2010, academic)
  • Studies dealing with autobiography in Arabic literature (2017, academic)
  • The history of the atonement in Tunisia (2018, academic)

Translations of Works

  • Al-Talyānī → The Italian (English, 2021)
  • Al-Talyānī → L'Italiano (Italian, 2017)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
realist prosepolitical and social criticismtextually informed by academic-critical background
Recurring Motifs
memory and personal pastpolitical repression and surveillancetension between religion and secularismfractured identity

Legacy

He is an established academic whose debut novel Al-Talyānī (2014) brought him international recognition. The novel portrays Tunisia's political transition and is regarded as a significant work in contemporary Arabic literature. He has also been influential as a university administrator and has received multiple literary and academic awards.

Academic Societies

  • Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts (associated)

Trivia

  • Al-Talyānī won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the "Arab Booker") although the book was banned in the UAE; the award ceremony took place in Abu Dhabi.
  • Served as president of Manouba University from 2011 to 2017.