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Tunisia

The covers of the six books featured in the Watchlist on a tan background

The Watchlist: December 2024

By Tobias Carroll

In his last Watchlist of 2024, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry from Puerto Rico, memoirs of imprisonment from Tunisia, contemporary Brazilian short stories, and more.

The covers of the six books featured in the Watchlist in a 2x3 grid: Where We Stand, Mammoth, Mina's...

The Watchlist: August 2024

By Tobias Carroll

In this special #WITMonth edition of the Watchlist, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry from Tunisia, unsettling fiction from Japan, feminist nonfiction from Brazil, and much more.

At left the cover of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's THE MOST SECRET HISTORY OF MEN and National Book Award...

The National Book Award Interviews: Lara Vergnaud on The Most Secret Memory of Men

By Words Without Borders

“I always say that the last book I translated is the hardest book I’ve ever translated. But in this case, I think it’s true!”

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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.

Portraits of Tunisian author Yamen Manai, and translator Lara Vergnaud.

Yamen Manai, photo © Delphine Manai, and Lara Vergnaud, photo © Pascal Michel.

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

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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

Path of Light

I crawled to your lips across a bed of thorns

Translated from French by Marilyn Hacker

Multilingual

The Mothers

Our second home is built / in the avenue of death, say the mothers

Translated from French by Marilyn Hacker

Multilingual

I Call You Tunisia

How the dream had lost its plumage / In the skies of your nest.

Translated from French by Marilyn Hacker

I Introduce Myself to the World

I introduce myself to the world / mixed with my own shadows

Translated from French by Marilyn Hacker