ErostrateDiscovering the world's cultures, one work at a time
My list 0

How the works were chosen

Tunisia

Author · Tunisia

Gilbert Naccache

Died in 2020

Gilbert Naccache was born on 15 January 1939 in Tunis, into a Jewish family, and lost his father during the Second World War. Trained at the Institut national agronomique in Paris, he returned in 1962 and became an engineer at the Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture. A founding member of the left-wing movement Perspectives, he was arrested in March 1968, then in 1972 and in 1973, and remained in detention until 1979. In the eighties, he ran a publishing house in Tunis. Having returned to the country after 2011, he testified before the Truth and Dignity Commission, and died in Paris on 26 December 2020, aged eighty-one.

In the catalogue 1