Chokri Mabkhout

Hager Ben Driss (University of Tunis)

Ed. by Anastasia Valassopoulos, University of Manchester
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 8.1.1: North African Writing and Culture: Arabic, Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Lia Brozgal (University of California, Los Angeles), Helen Rachel Cousins (Birmingham Newman University), Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Dalia Mostafa (University of Manchester), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University)

Dates

Born 3 May 1962
Activity 2014-ongoing

Places

Born in Tunisia
Active in Tunisia

Cultural Identities

North African/ Maghrebian French

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Mabkhout's Works

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New York Times

(May 2016) as one of the five rising post-revolution Arab writers, Shukri al-Mabkhout (also transliterated Chokri Mabkhout) has lately occupied a privileged place in the Tunisian literary scene. At the age of 53, al-Mabkhout published his debut novel

Ettalyani

[The Italian] (2014) which won the 2015 prestigious International Prize for Arab Fiction (also known as the Arabic Booker). The importance of the Prize, al-Mabkhout contends, resides in its capacity to bring "the Arab novel international exposure that was missing" as it opens venues for Arab writers "to surpass the boundaries that were blocking Arab literature from the world" (Interview by Karen Leigh). What he finds more "exciting" and gratifying, however, is the reception of his novel at home.…

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Citation: Ben Driss, Hager. "Chokri Mabkhout". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 October 2016; last revised 21 January 2020. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13771, accessed 24 November 2024.]