Habib Selmi Author

Habib Selmi was born in 1951 in Kairouan, Tunisia. After graduating from the Uni- versity of Tunis, with a degree in Arabic Literature, Selmi taught the subject in Tunisia for five years, before moving to Paris in 1983, where he studied at the Sorbonne. Selmi is currently Professor of Arabic literature in Paris and has published seven novels, which have been translated into French, German and Italian.