Born 1945 · Tunisia
Comar d'Or 2022 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“In a Thirsty Land”
Emna Belhaj Yahia · 76 when first published
Novel · 222 pages · Family, Politics
AI-generated summary:In Tunis, a young woman questions her blind grandmother, Nojoum, about her life. From the start it is clear that the two are bound by a traumatic event they lived through together a few years earlier.
Comar d'Or 2012 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Ribbon Games”
Emna Belhaj Yahia · 66 when first published
Novel · 210 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Frida, a Tunisian academic in her fifties, shares her life with a new partner, her son and her ageing mother, until her beloved son falls in love with a young student who wears a headscarf.
Comar d'Or 2001 · Winner
Emna Belhaj Yahia · 55 when first published
Novel · 140 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:In an unnamed capital, a woman in the grip of a nervous breakdown turns her anger on her mother, Tasharej, a thoroughly modern woman, while other chapters follow poorer people who live on dreams and memories.