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Mohamed El Bardi

محمد الباردي

Born 1947 · Tunisia

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Comar d'Or 2014 · Winner

    ديوان المواجع

    Diwan al-mawaji'

    Title translated by AI:“The Book of Sorrows”

    Mohamed El Bardi · 67 when first published

    Novel · 531 pages · Politics, Historical

    AI-generated summary:A political novel that reads a century of Tunisia's history through the surging feelings of the people who live it, mixing lament with longing.

  • No English yet

    Comar d'Or 2005 · Winner

    الكرنفال

    al-Karnafal

    Title translated by AI:“The Carnival”

    Mohamed El Bardi · 57 when first published

    Novel · 197 pages · Autofiction, Politics

    AI-generated summary:Racing against time in the southern Tunisian town of Gabès, a narrator draws its people into telling their own and their neighbours' stories, from April 1938 to the fall of Baghdad.