التالياني

International Prize · 2015 · Winner

Dar al-TanwirJanuary 1, 2014Literary Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
International Prize for Arabic Fiction	2015	Winner

About This Book

Set in Tunisia from the 1970s to the present, follows a leftist intellectual across a life shaped by political disappointment, personal betrayal, and the seductions of ideology, a landmark of contemporary Arabic fiction for its psychological depth.

About the Author

Shukri MabkhoutTN

Shukri Mabkhout is a Tunisian novelist, academic, and university administrator born in 1962 in Tunis. He is a professor of Arabic linguistics and rhetoric and has served as president of Manouba University. His academic career and his fiction writing are intertwined: his deep knowledge of Arabic literary tradition informs the formal sophistication of his novels. Read more →