Tunisian Novelist Amira Ghenim Wins 2024 Arabic Literature Prize for "The Disaster of the Notables' House"
The Tunisian novelist Amira Ghenim has been awarded the 2024 Arabic Literature Prize for her novel "The Disaster of the Notables' House".
This prize, awarded by the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation and the Arab World Institute (IMA), highlights outstanding contributions to Arabic literature and gives a voice to exceptional authors from the Arab world.
Since its creation in 2013, this €10,000 prize is one of the rare French distinctions dedicated to Arabic literature, rewarding works by writers from the Arab League, written or translated into French.
Amira Ghenim, a renowned academic and writer born in 1978 in Sousse, is an Arabic language and literature graduate and holds a Ph.D. in linguistics. She teaches at the University of Sousse.
She is the author of several academic essays and three novels, including "The Yellow File" (2019), "Scorched Earth" (2024), and "The Disaster of the Notables' House". The latter, a finalist for the Arab Booker Prize and winner of the Comar d'Or in Tunisia in 2021, is her first work translated into French.
The 2024 jury, chaired by Pierre Leroy from the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation, comprises influential personalities, including writer and painter Mahi Binebine, Luma Foundation director Mustapha Bouhayati, and author and journalist Houda Ibrahim.
