Moncef Ghachem

Moncef Ghachem was born in 1946 in Mahdia, on the eastern Tunisian coast, into a family of fishermen settled there for four generations. His studies took him from Sousse to Tunis, then to France. A journalist and writer, he returned to Tunisia in 1981 and lived in Sidi Bou Said, close to the poet Lorand Gaspar. He received the Mirabilia Prize for Francophone poetry in 1991, the Albert Camus Prize in 1994 for a collection of short stories, and was honoured at the Senghor Prize in 2006 for his body of work.

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• PoetryCent mille oiseauxMoncef Ghachem · 1975not translated into EnglishLiterature