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• EssayThe Perfumed Gardenالروض العاطرCheikh Nefzaoui · 1410Tunis under the Hafsids, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, where a dignitary commissions a sheikh to write a book on what the legal treatises do not discuss.Literature
• TaleTunisian Tales and PoemsTunisische Märchen und GedichteHans Stumme · 1893Tunis in 1893, where a German linguist has storytellers speak and writes down what he hears, word for word.Literature
• CinemaZohraAlbert Samama Chikly · 1922Protectorate Tunisia in 1922, where a pioneer of the image shoots with his daughter a first local fiction film.Cinema
• TaleLe Bestiaire du GhettoRyvel · 1934not translated into EnglishThe Hara of Tunis between the wars, where an uncle and his nephew set out to record what the neighbourhood tells about animals.Literature
• CinemaThe Fool of Kairouanمجنون القيروانJean-André Creuzi · 1939The protectorate on the eve of the war, when crews from Europe shoot in Arabic with local people in front of the camera and at the microphone.Cinema
• PoetrySur les cendres de CarthageAbdelmajid Tlatli · 1952not translated into EnglishTunisia in 1952, where a generation writes poems in French on the ruins of its own history.Literature
• NovelThe Pillar of SaltLa Statue de selAlbert Memmi · 1953Tunis from the twenties to the forties, where a child from the poor Jewish quarter enters the French school and gains as much there as he loses.Literature
• Poetryأغاني الحياةAbu al-Qasim al-Shabbi · 1955not translated into EnglishProtectorate Tunisia, where a young man of twenty writes as one speaks to a people, and dies without seeing his book published.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreThe DamالسدMahmoud Messadi · 1955A valley without water, outside time and outside any country, where a local deity rules over men who have stopped waiting.Literature
• CinemaGohaJacques Baratier · 1958A small Tunisian town of an unspecified time, where the most naive and the most learned live side by side.Cinema
• PoetryMusocktailHédi Bouraoui · 1966not translated into EnglishCanada in 1966, where a Tunisian trained in Europe and the United States publishes his first book just as he settles in Toronto.Literature
• Novelالدقلة في عراجينهاBéchir Khraïef · 1969not translated into EnglishThe oasis of the Jerid in the first decades of the century, where palm trees make the wealth of families and where sons leave for the mine.Literature
• Short storiesSleepless Nightsسهرت منه اللياليAli Douagi · 1969Tunis in the thirties, where a band of penniless writers makes the working-class city their material and the street their language.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaوغداBrahim Babai · 1971Tunisia at the beginning of the early seventies, where the countryside is emptying and the city does not deliver what it promises.Cinema
• CinemaصراخOmar Khlifi · 1972Tunisia in the early seventies, where the cinema dares to show the village the fate reserved for girls.Cinema
• PoetryNos ancêtres les BédouinsSalah Garmadi · 1975not translated into EnglishTunisia in the seventies, where a bilingual poet makes the quarrel of languages the matter of his verse.Literature
• PoetryCent mille oiseauxMoncef Ghachem · 1975not translated into EnglishTunisia in the nineteen-seventies, where a poet born on the coast publishes his first books in French.Literature
• Short storiesمدن الرجل المهاجرHabib Selmi · 1977not translated into EnglishTunisia in the seventies, where a young Arabic-language writer publishes his first stories.Literature
• CinemaSun of the Hyenasشمس الضباعRidha Behi · 1977The Tunisian coast of the seventies, where international tourism is transforming the villages of the shore.Cinema
• NovelTalismanoAbdelwahab Meddeb · 1979Tunis and other cities of the Maghreb, travelled by a writer returned from Paris, between the present city and that of former times.Literature
• PoetryPaysages, nuit friableAmina Saïd · 1980not translated into EnglishThe Paris region in 1980, where a poet born in Tunis publishes her first book of verse.Literature
• CinemaAzizaعزيزةAbdellatif Ben Ammar · 1980Tunis in 1980, where a young woman moves from household chores to factory work.Cinema
• NarrativeCristalGilbert Naccache · 1982not translated into EnglishThe prisons of Bourguiba's Tunisia, from the end of the sixties through the seventies.Literature
• CinemaThe Shadow of the Earthظل الأرضTaieb Louhichi · 1982A border encampment in Tunisia, at the moment when pastoral life ceases to be possible.Cinema
• CinemaCrossing OverTraverséesMahmoud Ben Mahmoud · 1982The Channel around the turn of 1981, between two European borders closed to two foreigners.Cinema
• CinemaWanderers of the DesertالهائمونNacer Khemir · 1984A village in the Tunisian desert, outside time, where legend and reality merge.Cinema
• PoetryLe Chant du roi errantTahar Bekri · 1985not translated into EnglishParis in the mid-eighties, where a poet from Gabès publishes his verse in exile.Literature
• NovelL'Œil du jourHélé Béji · 1985not translated into EnglishTunis in the mid-eighties, between the family medina and a society where speech remains watched.Literature
• Short storiesحكاية جنون ابنة عمي هنيةHassouna Mosbahi · 1986not translated into EnglishTunisia in the mid-eighties, where a dismissed teacher turned journalist publishes his first short stories.Literature
• CinemaMan of Ashesريح السدNouri Bouzid · 1986Sfax in the mid-eighties, where sons are married off without anyone asking what they carry within.Cinema
• NovelLion MountainLa Montagne du lionMustapha Tlili · 1988A Maghrebi village, from the protectorate to the first decades of independence, when the Party replaces the elders.Literature
• NovelElissa, la reine vagabondeFawzi Mellah · 1988not translated into EnglishThe Phoenician Mediterranean of the ninth century BCE, from Tyre to the coast of the future Carthage.Literature
• CinemaArabعربFadhel Jaïbi and Fadhel Jaziri · 1988The late eighties, between the war in Lebanon and a Tunisia returned to the old codes of honour.Cinema
• CinemaHalfaouine: Boy of the TerracesحلفاوينFérid Boughedir · 1990The Halfaouine district of Tunis, where a child still moves between the world of women and that of men.Cinema
• CinemaThe Silences of the Palaceصمت القصورMoufida Tlatli · 1994A beylical palace in Tunis in the fifties, on the eve of independence.Cinema
• CinemaOne Evening in JulyUn soir de juilletRaja Amari · 2000Tunisia in the year 2000, over the course of a wedding day, when gestures pass from one generation of women to the next.Cinema

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