Béchir Khraïef

Béchir Khraïef was born on 10 April 1917 in Nefta, in the oasis of south-western Tunisia, into a well-known family of scholars. He went early to Tunis, taught in several regions of the country, then was a shopkeeper in the medina. He published his first short stories around the age of twenty and came to the novel later, notably with a love story of a black slave in sixteenth-century Tunis. He is regarded as the father of the Tunisian realist novel, known for his dialogues in spoken Arabic. He received the grand prize for literature and thought in 1981 and died on 17 December 1983.

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• Novelالدقلة في عراجينهاBéchir Khraïef · 1969not translated into EnglishLiterature