Amira Ghenim
Origin: Tunisia
Origin:
Tunisia
Amira Ghenim is a Tunisian writer and academic, born in 1978. Having graduated with a Higher Teaching Certificate (agrégation) in Arabic Language and Literature and a PhD in Linguistics, she teaches Linguistics and Translation at Tunis University. She has published books on translation and linguistics and the novel The Yellow Dossier (2019), which won the Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamad Prize in 2020. Her second novel The Calamity of the Nobility was published in 2020.