Amira Ghenim

Amira Ghenim is a Tunisian writer and academic. She was born in 1978 in Sousse. She obtained a PhD in linguistics, teaches at Tunis University, and is involved in academic publishing about linguistics and translation both as an editor and a writer. In addition, she has written and published two novels to date: She is also involved in radio production, and her show "Women of My Country" won an award from the Arab Radios Union in 2014.
 * The Yellow Dossier (2019), which won the Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamad Prize in 2020
 * The Calamity of the Nobility (2020), which was shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2021