Hélé Béji

Hélé Béji (; born 1 April 1948) is a Tunisian writer.

Biography The daughter of Tunisian politician and diplomat and Corsican mother Simone Gaggeri, she was born in Tunis, passed her Agrégation de lettres modernes and went on to teach literature at the University of Tunis. She later joined UNESCO in Paris. In 1998, she founded the Collège international de Tunis. She has expressed a great admiration for the author Marcel Proust and his influence can be seen in her fiction. She has contributed to the magazines Le Débat and Esprit. Her aunt Wassila Ben Ammar was the First Lady of Tunisia as the wife of the first President of Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba.

Selected works

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Le Désenchantement national, essai sur la décolonisation, political essay (1982) L’oeil du jour, novel (1985) Itinéraire de Paris à Tunis, satire (1992) L'Art contre la culture, essay (1992) L’Imposture culturelle, essay (1997) Islam Pride, essay (2011)