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4,667 books · 44 prizes · 39 countries
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Comar d'Or 2020 · Winner
لا نسبح في النهر مرتين · La Nasbahu fi al-Nahr Marratayn
Hassouna Mosbahi · 70 when first published
Novel · 232 pages · Politics
AI-generated summary:In Tunisia after the fall of Ben Ali, three men take turns telling their lives: an insurance clerk sliding into paranoia, a retired postal worker from Bizerte, and an intellectual back from thirty years in Paris.
Comar d'Or 2017 · Winner
L'Amas ardent
Yamen Manai · 37 when first published
Novel · 204 pages · Satire, Politics, Nature
AI-generated summary:Near Nawa, a village in the Tunisian hinterland, a beekeeper known as the Don lives apart from the world with his bees, until he finds his colonies mutilated in a country still shaken by its recent revolution.
Comar d'Or 2015 · Winner
الطلياني · al-Talyani
Shukri Mabkhout · 52 when first published
Novel · 368 pages · Politics, Love
AI-generated summary:At his father's funeral, Abdel Nasser, nicknamed the Italian, attacks his neighbour, the imam, in front of stunned mourners. A friend reconstructs his life from childhood to find out why.
Also: IPAF 2015 winner