Hassouna Mosbahi

Hassouna Mosbahi was born in October 1950 in Dhahibat, a village in the Kairouan region. He studied French literature at the University of Tunis and was teaching French in the mid-seventies when he was dismissed, for reasons said to be political. Based in Munich from 1985 to 2004, he was secretary of a German journal in Arabic there and wrote for Arabic newspapers published in Europe, then lived in Hammamet. In 2016 he received the Mohamed Zefzaf Prize for the Arabic novel, in Asilah, and died in 2025, aged seventy-five.

In the catalogue 1

• Short storiesحكاية جنون ابنة عمي هنيةHassouna Mosbahi · 1986not translated into EnglishLiterature