Hassouna Mosbahi


Hassouna Mosbahi is an award-winning Tunisian author, literary critic and freelance journalist.

Biography

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 Bourghiba and so sought refuge in Europe, moving to Munich, Germany in 1985. He returned to Tunisia in 2004.
He has published four collections of short stories and six novels and has been translated into German and English. He has also published dozens of translations of French literary works into Arabic.
His work has won several literary prizes, including the Munich Fiction Prize, and the 2016 Mohamed Zefzef Prize for Fiction. In 2010 he refused a "Judges' Choice" prize from the Prix Littéraires COMAR D’OR for his novel Ramād al-ḥayāh '', for what he described as "reasons he will keep to himself".
He currently lives in Hammamat, Tunisia.

Prizes

Mosbahi has been vocal in his opposition to the 2011 Tunisian revolution in interviews and speeches, as well as in his 2015 novel ʼAšwāk wa-yāsamīn . This political stance has been sharply criticized.

Selected Works

Novels