Fethia Hechmi

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Fethia Hechmi
Native name
فتحية الهاشمي
Born1955
OccupationWriter • Novelist • Poet
LanguageArabic
NationalityTunisian
Notable awards2009 Credif Prize for Best Writing by a Tunisian Woman

Fethia Hechmi (Arabic: فتحية الهاشمي, romanizedFatḥiyya al-Hāshimī) (b. 1955) is a Tunisian novelist.[1] She published her first collection of poems entitled al-Uqḥuwān al-maṣlūb alā al-shifah in 2002, and her first novel Ḥāfiyat al-rūḥ (novel) in 2002.[2] Her 2009 novel Maryam tasquṭ min yadd Allāh has been recognized for its experimental style.[3] She was active in the 2011 Tunisian revolution and has been a prominent voice on Tunisian politics since then.[4][2]

Works[edit]

Novels[edit]

  • (2005) Ḥāfiyat al-rūḥ (حافية الروح (Bare-footed soul))
  • (2007) Minnah Mawwāl (منّة موّال)
  • (2009) Maryam tasquṭ min yadd Allāh (مريم تسقط من يد الله (Maryam falls from the hand of God))
  • (2016) al-ʿAnkabūt lā yaḥrus al-ʾanbiyāʾ dāʾiman (العنكبوت لا يحرس الأنبياء دائما (The spider does not always guard prophets))

Poetry[edit]

  • (2002) al-Uqḥuwān al-maṣlūb alā al-shifah (الأقحوان المصلوب على الشفاه (A daisy crucified on lips))

Short story collections[edit]

  • (2012) al-Shayṭān yaʿūd min al-manfā (الشيطان يعود من المنفى (Satan returns from exile))

Prizes[edit]

  • (2009) Credif Prize for Best Writing by a Tunisian Woman (جائزة الكريديف لأحسن الكتابات النسائية بتونس)[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Mamelouk, Douja (2017-08-10). Hassan, Waïl S. (ed.). Tunisia (in The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions). Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. pp. 455–472. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199349791.013.30. ISBN 978-0-19-934979-1.
  2. ^ a b Mamelouk, Douja Mariem (2013-09-02). "The New Middle East: Battling Lost Memory: Tunisian Women Write the Revolution". The New Middle East. Retrieved 2021-03-07.
  3. ^ Mamelouk, Douja (2010). Redirecting al-nazar: contemporary Tunisian women novelists return the gaze. Doctoral dissertation, Georgetown University.
  4. ^ القاسم, احمد محمود. "حوار مع التونسية فتحية الهاشمي والوضع التونسي" [Interview with Tunisian Fethia Hechmi on the situation in Tunisia]. صحيفة المثقف (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2021-03-07.
  5. ^ "فتحية الهاشمي" [Fethia Hechmi]. جائزة كتارا للرواية العربية (in Arabic). Retrieved 2021-03-07.