Tahar Bekri

Tahar Bekri was born on 7 July 1951 in Gabès, in southern Tunisia. Imprisoned for his student activism, he left Tunisia in 1976 and settled in Paris, where he taught Maghreb literature at the university, as a senior lecturer from 1985. He writes in French and Arabic, and has published about twenty books, poetry, essays and artists' books. Critics read his work as a poetry of exile, wandering and travel, marked by the native oasis and by nostalgia for the country he left.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryLe Chant du roi errantTahar Bekri · 1985not translated into EnglishLiterature