Hélé Béji

Hélé Béji was born on 1 April 1948 in Tunis, the daughter of Mondher Ben Ammar, a Tunisian politician and diplomat, and of a Corsican mother. The first Tunisian woman to pass the agrégation in modern literature, in 1973, she taught literature at the University of Tunis, then was an international civil servant at Unesco, in Paris. Removed from the university after the coup d'état of 7 November 1987, she founded in 1998 the Collège international de Tunis, a place of debate that never obtained official authorisation. She received the prix de l'Afrique méditerranéenne in 1983, then the grand prix Hervé-Deluen in 2016.

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• NovelL'Œil du jourHélé Béji · 1985not translated into EnglishLiterature