الحبيب السالمي
Born 1951 · Tunisia
IPAF 2021 · Shortlist
Al-Ishtiyaq ila al-Jara
Title translated by AI:“Longing for the Woman Next Door”
Habib Selmi · 69 when first published
Novel · Love
AI-generated summary:A sixty-year-old Tunisian, well educated and with a foreign wife, and a younger Tunisian woman of modest background in the same building drift from his guarded condescension into an unusual relationship.
IPAF 2012 · Shortlist
Nisa' al-Basatin
Title translated by AI:“The Women of al-Basatin”
Habib Selmi · 59 when first published
Novel · 207 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:After five years abroad, a Tunisian man comes home and spends ten days in his married brother's flat in al-Basatin, a district of Tunis, watching the women around him and a society torn between tradition and modernity.
IPAF 2009 · Shortlist
روائح ماري كلير · Rawa'ih Mari Klir
Habib Selmi · 57 when first published
Novel · 223 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Mahfoudh, an Arab man, and Marie-Claire, a Western woman, fall in love and share a flat, and the small habits of everyday life slowly reveal how fragile their bond is.