Short stories
مدن الرجل المهاجر
Not translated into English
Habib Selmi · 1977
Synopsis
A collection of short stories written in Arabic, published in 1977. It is the author's first book, and it earned him the first literary prize of his career, nine years before a second collection.
Context
The collection appeared in 1977 and opens a body of work that includes a second book of short stories in 1986, then, from 1988, a series of novels, several of which have been published in French by Actes Sud and two in German. Stories by Selmi have since appeared in anthologies in English, Norwegian, Hebrew and French, as well as in the journal Banipal, in London. The writer, who has lived in France for almost forty years, has kept Arabic for all his fiction.
Who it is for
A first book in Arabic, rare, for readers who want to follow Selmi's work from his beginnings as a short-story writer.
Prizes and reception
This first collection won its author a literary prize, according to an interview he gave to the magazine Al Majalla.
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