Faraj Hawwar


Faraj Hawwar is a Tunisian writer, novelist and researcher born in Hammam Sousse on 12 February 1954. He completed his primary and secondary education in Sousse, as a 1978 alumnus of École Normale Supérieure, Tunisia, majoring in French Language and Literature. He writes in both Arabic and French.

Career

Hawwar is a Tunisian novelist and member of the Tunisian Writers Union since 1993. He writes novels in both Arabic and French, and stories and poetry in French. In 1985, he released his first novel Death, the Sea and the Rat, and now has over 16 novels.
Hawwar has written several monographs, including Writers’ Metaphors and Rhetoricians' References, The Fragrant Meadows in Al Khatir’s Picnic, Writing Desire, and the Dictionary of ''Tunisian Revolution. He also translated The Anthology of Tunisian Short Stories and Anthology of Tunisian Novels'' from Arabic into French.
His doctoral thesis is on the issue of desire in the writings of Georges Bataille and he has undertaken extensive research on gender in French and Arab Islamic heritage.

Novels

The following are some of his novels:The Conspiracy, Dar al-Ma'arif, Cairo
  • Explanation of the Facts about Absence and Melancholy Dar al-Janub, Tunis 1996 Ainsi Parlait San Antonio, L'Or du Temps, Tunis 1998The Body is a Banquet, Dar Tabr Al Zaman, Tunisia La créature des abysses, Editions Saha, Tunis 1999Night Rituals, Al-Kamel Verlag, Cologne The Cleansing, Dar Zainab Publishing, Tunis

Awards