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Mohamed Ali Yousfi (Tunisian Arabic: محمد علي اليوسفي) (born March 3, 1950, in Béja, Tunisia) is a Tunisian writer and translator.[1]
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Life
editAfter obtaining his master's degree in philosophy and social sciences, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Lebanese University.
His first novel, published in 1992, was titled The Time for Elves, and won the prize for best Arabic novel Tawkit Al Binka-Al Naked Prize. His second novel, Sun Tiles, was published five years later, and won the prize for best novel of Tunisia 1997COMAR D'OR Edition 1998.
Publications
editPoetry
- Edge of the earth
- The Night of ancestors
- A sixth woman for the senses
Novels
- The kingdom of al okhaydhar
- Yesterday, Beirut
- Dentella
- Thresholds of paradise
Translations
edit- Emile Cioran, Fragments chosen
- Georges Bataille, Theory of Religion
- Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Guy de Maupassant, From Tunis to Kairouan
- Roger Icart, The French Revolution on the Screen
- Eric Leguèbe, A Century of French Cinema
- Trails wind (choice of poems) by Pierre Emmanuel, René Char, Alain Bosquet and Eugène Guillevic
Novels (in Arabic)
editReferences
edit- ^ El-Wardani, Mahmoud (28 May – 3 June 1998). "A rise and a fall". Al-Ahram Weekly. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
2- Un romancier tunisien: Mohammed Ali Yousfi
4- Tunisian-Novelists-Abdelwahab-Bouraoui-Mohamed Ali Yousfi