Habib Selmi

Habib Selmi was born on 31 January 1951 in El Alâa, near Kairouan, to parents who could not read, and discovered literature at the secondary school in Haffouz. He studied Arabic language and literature at the University of Tunis, then completed his studies at the Sorbonne. He taught Arabic for five years, then worked as a journalist, and settled in Paris in the mid-eighties; he holds the agrégation in Arabic and teaches at a lycée there. A novelist who writes in Arabic, he was on the shortlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction three times, in 2009, 2012 and 2021.

In the catalogue 1

• Short storiesمدن الرجل المهاجرHabib Selmi · 1977not translated into EnglishLiterature