Mohamed Ali Yousfi

Mohamed Ali Yousfi (Tunisian Arabic: محمد علي اليوسفي) (born March 3, 1950, in Béja, Tunisia) is a Tunisian writer and translator.^[1]

Life

After obtaining his master's degree in philosophy and social sciences, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Lebanese University.

His first novel, published in 1992, was titled The Time for Elves, and won the prize for best Arabic novel Tawkit Al Binka-Al Naked Prize. His second novel, Sun Tiles, was published five years later, and won the prize for best novel of Tunisia 1997COMAR D'OR Edition 1998.

Poetry

Novels

Emile Cioran, Fragments chosen
Georges Bataille, Theory of Religion
Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Guy de Maupassant, From Tunis to Kairouan
Roger Icart, The French Revolution on the Screen
Eric Leguèbe, A Century of French Cinema
Trails wind (choice of poems) by Pierre Emmanuel, René Char, Alain Bosquet and Eugène Guillevic

^ El-Wardani, Mahmoud (28 May – 3 June 1998). "A rise and a fall". Al-Ahram Weekly. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2010.