Fawzi Mellah

Fawzi Mellah was born on 26 May 1946 in Damascus and grew up in Tunisia. He studied law, then political science, in Lausanne, taught at the University of Geneva and held research posts in American universities. An academic and journalist, he first wrote two plays, in 1973 and 1975, published an essay on Arab unity in 1985, then turned to narrative and the novel with a major Parisian publisher. Since then his work has combined reportage, travel journal and historical fiction. He has lived partly in Tunisia since 2011.

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• NovelElissa, la reine vagabondeFawzi Mellah · 1988not translated into EnglishLiterature