Faraj Hawwar

Faraj Hawwar (commonly spelled "Fredj Lahouar") is a Tunisian writer, novelist and researcher born in Hammam Sousse on 12 February 1954. He completed his primary and secondary education in Sousse, as a 1978 alumnus of École Normale Supérieure, Tunisia, majoring in French Language and Literature. He writes in both Arabic and French.

Career Hawwar is a Tunisian novelist and member of the Tunisian Writers Union since 1993. and now has over 16 novels. The Fragrant Meadows in Al Khatir’s Picnic (original: al-Rawḍ al-ʻāṭir fī nuzʹhat al-khāṭir), He also translated The Anthology of Tunisian Short Stories (2008) and Anthology of Tunisian Novels (2009) from Arabic into French (in collaboration with Hafez al-Hadidi). and he has undertaken extensive research on gender in French and Arab Islamic heritage. Explanation of the Facts about Absence and Melancholy (original: at-tabayyān fi'l ghurba w'il ashjān) Dar al-Janub, Tunis 1996 Ainsi Parlait San Antonio, L'Or du Temps, Tunis 1998 The Body is a Banquet (original: al-Jasad walīmah), Dar Tabr Al Zaman, Tunisia (1999) La créature des abysses, Editions Saha, Tunis 1999 Night Rituals (original: Ṭuqūs al-layl), Al-Kamel Verlag, Cologne (2008) The Cleansing (original: al-taṭhīr), Dar Zainab Publishing, Tunis (2019)

Awards The Conspiracy won the Abu Al Qasim Al Shabi Award in 1992 and was ranked among the top 100 Arabic-language novels of the 20th century by the Arab Writers Union. Ainsi Parlait San-Antonio received a Prix Littéraire COMAR d'Or in 1999.