Hassouna Mosbahi
Tunisian writer (1950–2025)
Hassouna Mosbahi (Arabic: حسونة المصباحي; 1950 – 4 June 2025) was a Tunisian author, literary critic and freelance journalist.
Life and career
Hassouna Mosbahi was born in 1950 in the village of Dhehibat in the governorate of Kairouan, Tunisia, and studied French at the Tunis University.
He suffered persecution at the hands of the government of Habib Bourguiba and so sought refuge in Europe, moving to Munich, Germany in 1985. He returned to Tunisia in 2004.
He published four collections of short stories and six novels and has been translated into German and English. He also published dozens of translations of French literary works into Arabic.
His work won several literary prizes, including the Munich Fiction Prize (for the German translation of his novel Tarshish Hallucination), and the 2016 Mohamed Zefzef Prize for Fiction (for his novel A Tunisian Tale). In 2010 he refused a "Judges' Choice" prize from the Prix Littéraires COMAR D’OR for his novel Ramād al-ḥayāh (Ashes of life), for what he described as "reasons he will keep to himself".
Mosbahi lived in Hammamat, Tunisia. He died on 4 June 2025, at the age of 75.
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