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Mohamed Ali Yousfi (born march 03, 1950, Beja, Tunisia) is a Tunisian writer and translator. After obtaining his master’s degree in philosophy and social sciences, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Lebanese University . His work has been published in Tunis, and throughout the Middle East (Amman, Beirut and Damascus).
His first novel, published in 1992, was titled “The time for elves”, and won the prize for best Arabic novel[citation needed]). His second novel, “Sun tiles”, was published five years later, and won the prize for best novel of Tunisia 1997[citation needed].
He has also proposed an original interpretation of the texts concerning the Palestinian intifada in a book of literary criticism “The Alphabet of the stone”, though his main focus is in creating Arabic translations of various authors; Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Miguel Angel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Shichiro Fukazawa, Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, Christine Bruet, Octavio Paz, an anthology of Greek poetry, biography of Nikos Kazantzakis, The Beginnings of the bourgeois philosophy of Max Horkheimer and Balzac and realism french Georg Lukács.
Publications
- Edge of the earth-poetry.
- The Night of ancestors-poetry.
- A sixth woman for the senses-poetry.
- The kingdom of al okhaydhar- novel.
- Yesterday, Beirut-novel.
- Dentella-novel.
- Thresholds of paradise-novel.
Translations
- 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 cinema french.
- Trails wind (choice of poems) by Pierre Emmanuel, Rene Char, Alain Bosquet and Eugene Guillevic
Novels (in arabic)
External Links
- His blog: Carma كرمة