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Hassouna Mosbahi

حسونة المصباحي

Born 1950 · Tunisia

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Comar d'Or 2020 · Winner

    We Never Swim in the Same River Twice

    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.