Mohamed Ali Yousfi

Mohamed Ali Yousfi

Mohamed Ali Yousfi (Arabic: محمد علي اليوسفي‎) (born March 3, 1950, 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 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{{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 1997{{COMAR D'OR Edition 1998}}.

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 Ángel 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

Poetry

• Edge of the earth
• The Night of ancestors
• A sixth woman for the senses

Novels

• The kingdom of al okhaydhar
• Yesterday, Beirut
• Dentella
• Thresholds of paradise

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 French Cinema
• Trails wind (choice of poems) by Pierre Emmanuel, René Char, Alain Bosquet and Eugène Guillevic

Novels (in Arabic)

• Riwayet
• Atabat al janna

References

1. ^ El-Wardani, Mahmoud (28 May - 3 June 1998). "A rise and a fall". Al-Ahram Weekly. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/379/cu3.htm. Retrieved 17 September 2010. 

2- Un romancier tunisien: Mohammed Ali Yousfi 3- arabworldbooks 4- Tunisian-Novelists-Abdelwahab-Bouraoui-Mohamed Ali Yousfi 5- MODERN TUNISIAN LITERATURE 6 Fontaine-Articles 7 poetasdelmundo

External links

• His blog: Carma كرمة
• MODERN TUNISIAN LITERATURE
• Un romancier tunisien: Mohammed Ali Yousfi
• voixvivesmediterranee
• File:Tunisian-Novelists

Persondata
Name	Yousfi, Mohamed Ali
Alternative names	محمد علي اليوسفي
Short description	Tunisian writer and translator
Date of birth	March 3, 1950
Place of birth	Béja, Tunisia
Date of death
Place of death