Shukri Mabkhout

Shukri Mabkhout, also transcribed Choukri Mabkhout, (Arabic: شكري المبخوت‎; born 1962) is a Tunisian academic, critic and novelist.

Shukri Mabkhout
Born1962 (age 58–59)
Tunisia
OccupationNovelist
Notable worksThe Italian
Notable awardsInternational Prize for Arabic Fiction (2015)

Biography

He was born in Tunis, and obtained a PhD in literature from the Arts College of Manouba. He has written several works of literary criticism and sits on the board of several literary journals.

Professor at the University of Tunis, he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Arts and Humanities of La Manouba before becoming president of Manouba University (2011-2017).[1]

Director of the 33rd and the 34rd edition of the Tunis International Book Fair,[2] he is also a member of the editorial board of several refereed journals, including Ibla magazine (published by the Institute of Arabic Literature in Tunis) and Romano Arabica (published by The Centre for Arab Studies in Bucharest).[3]

In 2016, he was appointed by the President of the Republic of Tunisia as a member of the Higher Committee for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.[4]

Shukri Mabkhout was propelled onto the international scene by his first novel Etalyenni (The Italian), published in 2014. The plot follows a man, Abdel Nasser (nicknamed "The Italian") who inexplicably attacks an imam (also his neighbor) during his father's funeral. The events of the novel unfold in Tunisia during the tumultuous late 1980s and early 1990s, and examine the political clashes between leftists and Islamists and the forces that brought Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to power.[3][5] The novel won the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction (often called the "Arab Booker prize"), which was awarded in Abu Dhabi despite the book being banned in the Emirates.[6]

Etalyenni was translated into Italian by Barbara Teresi and published as L’Italiano by Europa Editions in 2017.[7] An English translation of the novel (translated by Karen McNeil and Miled Faiza) will be published by Europa Editions in 2021.[8]

Honours and awards

Publications
  • (in Arabic) The biography in the book of al-Ayyâm of Tâhâ Husayn, Tunis, Sud Published, 1992
  • (in Arabic) Aesthetics: The text and its readers in classical Arabic poetics, Carthage, Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts, 1993
  • (in Arabic) The construction of negation, Tunis, University Publishing Center, 2006
  • (in Arabic) The Inductive reasoning, Tunis, Publications of the faculty of letters of La Manouba, 2007
  • (in Arabic) The assigned meaning, Tunis, Dar Maraya al hadatha, 2008
  • (in Arabic) Theorization of linguistic issues, Tunis, Masciliana Publishing, 2008
  • (in Arabic) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Pragmatics, Beirut, Dar Kitab al jadeed, 2010
  • (in Arabic) Etalyenni [The Italian], Tunis, Dar al-Tanweer, 2014[17]
  • (in Arabic) Madame President, Ain, Ain Publishing, 2015
  • (in Arabic) Baganda, Tunis, Dar al-Tanweer, 2016
  • (in Arabic) Studies dealing with autobiography in Arabic literature, Tunis, Masciliana Publishing, 2017
  • (in Arabic) The history of the atonement in Tunisia, Tunis, Masciliana Publishing, 2018

References
  1. "Les nouveaux présidents d'université". 1 August 2011.
  2. "Foire du livre de Tunis 2017 : Chokri Mabkhout, directeur de la 33ème édition". 7 September 2016.
  3. "Shukri al-Mabkhout – 'The Italian'". ArabLit. 12 January 1999. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  4. "Décret présidentiel" (PDF). 12 December 2016.
  5. "After the Arab Spring: 5 Writers to Watch". 29 May 2016.
  6. Qualey, M. Lynx (6 May 2015). "Tunisian novel wins 'Arabic Booker' in Abu Dhabi despite UAE ban". the Guardian. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  7. "Shukri al-Mabkhout L'Italiano". Europa Editions.
  8. "Shukri al-Mabkhout – 'The Italian'". ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly. 12 January 1999. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  9. "Chokri Mabkhout. Curriculum Vitae". 11 January 2018.
  10. "المبخوت: جائزة خادم الحرمين العالمية للترجمة تسير في الأفق الكوني" [Dr. Al-Mabkhout: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Award for Translation is on the global horizon]. 27 October 2012.
  11. "Tunisian novel wins 'Arabic Booker' in Abu Dhabi despite UAE ban". 6 May 2015.
  12. "Chokri Mabkhout laureate of the Tunisian Prize for Cultural Exception". 25 April 2015.
  13. "Comar d'Or 2015 : Chokri Mabkhout pour son roman en arabe 'Ettalianai' et Anouar Attia pour 'Les Trois Graces'". 25 April 2015.
  14. "Ordre National du Mérite Culturel pour Chokri Mabkhout". 19 May 2015.
  15. "Professor Chokri Mabkhout". 10 January 2018.
  16. "Chokri Mabkhout, lauréat du prix de la fondation Abdul Hameed Shoman". 18 September 2018.
  17. "Shukri al-Mabkhout's novel "The Italian" : Failure in the police state". 2015.
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