Tunisian writer and translator.
His first novel appeared in 1992: “The time for elves” (prize for best Arabic novel in 1992). His second novel “Sun tiles” was published five years later (prize for best novel of Tunisia 1997).
But he mainly translates various authors in Arabic: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Miguel Angel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Shichiro Fukazawa, Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, Christine Bruet, Octavio Paz, an anthology of Greek poetry, biography of Nikos Kazantzakis, The Beginnings of the bourgeois philosophy of Max Horkheimer and Balzac and realism french Georg Lukács.
Other publications
Edge of the earth-poetry
The Night of ancestors-poetry
A sixth woman for the senses-poetry
The kingdom of al okhaydhar- novel
Yesterday, Beirut-novel
Dentella-novel
Thresholds of paradise-novel