List of Tunisian writers

This is a list of Tunisian writers


 * Ines Abassi, poet
 * Mohamed Bacha (1968– ) linguist. specialist in Tunisian Arabic. translator. short story writer
 * Faouzia Aloui (1958– ), poet and short story writer
 * Mahmoud Aslan (1902–after 1971)
 * Hachemi Baccouche (1916–2008), novelist and essayist
 * Hélé Béji (1948– ), novelist and essayist in French
 * Tahar Bekri (1951– ), poet in French and Arabic
 * Noura Bensaad, novelist and short story writer
 * Messaouda Boubaker (1954– ), novelist and short story writer
 * Hédi Bouraoui (1932– ), poet, novelist and academic
 * Aïcha Chaibi, novelist
 * Rachida el-Charni (1967– ), novelist and short story writer
 * Brahim Dargouthi (1955– ), novelist and member of steering committee of Union of Tunisian Writers
 * 'Ali al-Du'aji (1909–1949), novelist
 * Aboul-Qacem Echebbi (1909–1934), poet
 * Miled Faiza (1974– ), poet and translator
 * Mohamed Ghozzi (1949– ), poet and critic
 * Sophie el Goulli (1932–2015), novelist and art historian
 * Gisèle Halimi (1927–2020), lawyer, feminist activist and essayist
 * Faraj Hawwar (1954– ), writer, novelist, and researcher
 * Fethia Hechmi (1955– ), novelist, short story writer and poet
 * Ibn Khaldoun (1332–1406), polymath
 * Bashir Khrayyef (1917–1983), writer and teacher
 * Shukri Mabkhout (1962– ), novelist and academic
 * Lamia Makaddam (1971– ), poet
 * Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946– ), novelist and poet
 * Jamila Mejri (1951– ), poet
 * Mahmoud Messadi (1911–2004), novelist and playwright
 * Albert Memmi (1920–2020), sociologist, novelist and essayist
 * Amel Mokhtar (1964– ), novelist and journalist
 * Amel Moussa, poet and journalist
 * Hassouna Mosbahi (1950– ), novelist and short story writer
 * Moncef Ouahibi (1949– ), poet
 * Perpetua (died 203), writer of a prison diary from Carthage, The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
 * Najwa Al-Rayyahi (1962– ) writer and academic
 * Kamel Riahi (1974– ), novelist and short story writer
 * Youssef Rzouga (1957– ), poet
 * Amina Saïd (1953– ), poet
 * Habib Selmi (1951– ), novelist and short story writer
 * Walid Soliman (1975– ), writer, essayist and translator
 * Alia Tabaï, novelist
 * Ahmad al-Tifashi (–1253), poet, writer and anthologist
 * Mustapha Tlili (1937–2017), novelist and academic
 * Mohamed Ali Yousfi, writer and translator
 * Z (active as of 2007), anonymous political cartoonist and writer
 * Fawzia Zouari, writer and journalist
 * Mohamed El Aziz Ben Achour (1951– ), writer, historian, and politician
 * Anis Chouchène, (1982– ), poet and activist