Rachida el-Charni

Rachida el-Charni (born 1967) is a Tunisian writer. She has published three collections of short stories and one novel.[1] Her short story 'Street of the House of Wonders' (also known as 'The way to Poppy Street') was in Habila Helon's The Granta Book of the African Short Story - a collection of short stories from prominent African writers, including Chimamanda Adichie, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Doreen Baingana, Henrietta Rose-Innes, E. C. Osondu, Alex La Guma and Camara Laye among others.[2]

Prizes
  • First prize, Arab Women’s Creative Writing (Sharjah), 2000, for her second collection of short stories
  • Centre of Arab Woman for Training and Research (Tunisia), 1997, for her first collection of short stories

Selected works

Novels
  • Tarateel li-Alamiha (Hymns for her Pain), 2011 [3][4]

Short story collections
  • Saheel al-Asaila (The Neighing of Questions), 2002

References
  1. "Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature - Contributors - Rachida el-Charni". www.banipal.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  2. "A beautiful failure". Egypt Independent. 2011-11-27. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
  3. mlynxqualey (2012-07-01). "The Stories of Rachida el-Charni". ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
  4. Tarchouna, Mahmoud (2014). "Awareness of the Present and Prediction of the Future in the Tunisian Novel". Tabayyun (in Arabic). 2 (8): 91–104. ISSN 2305-2465.
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