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Amira Ghenim

أميرة غنيم

Born 1978 · Tunisia

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    IPAF 2021 · Shortlist

    A Calamity of Noble Houses

    نازلة دار الأكابر · Nazilat Dar al-Akabir

    Amira Ghenim · 42 when first published

    Novel · Historical, Love

    AI-generated summary:A novel that imagines a love between the Tunisian reformer Tahar Haddad and a woman named Lella Zbaida, and lets women narrators tell a hidden chapter of the country's modern history.