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Tunisia

The covers of the six books featured in the article: Solitaire, I'd Like to Say Sorry But There's...

The Watchlist: February 2022

By Tobias Carroll

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books in translation from Morocco, Argentina, Poland, Chile, Sweden, and Tunisia.

Guided by the Bees: Yamen Manai and Lara Vergnaud on Translating “The Ardent Swarm”

By Lara Vergnaud & Yamen Manai

Tunisia’s experience with despotism and revolution is universal.

Conflicting Stories

By Susan Harris

These works reflect a striking range of existential challenges shaping lives across the globe.

February 2019 International Graphic Novel After The Spring A Tunisian Youth Helene Aldeguer Feature

From After the Spring

By Hélène Aldeguer

He was 27! Just 27! Barely older than us!

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

Multimedia

We Take the Present in Our Own Hands: Writing by Tunisian Women

By Cécile Oumhani

What do Tunisian women write today?

Game of Ribbons

By Emna Belhaj Yahia

“I don’t like to be lumped in with every woman who wears a scarf on her head.”

Translated from French by Emma Ramadan

from “Clairvoyant in the City of the Blind”

I hope and despair at the same moment

Translated from French by Marilyn Hacker

The Killer

My finger is pressing the trigger.

Translated from Arabic by Alice Guthrie

The Restless

Skin has a memory.

Translated from French by Ros Schwartz

The Stranger and the Old Lady

By Noura Bensaad

In her eyes there smiles the child she once was.

Translated from French by Roland Glasser

Multilingual

The Dump

By Chakib Daoud

I put everything I had into this dump.

Translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette & Nariman Youssef

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