Mohamed Ali Yousfi () (born March 3, 1950 in Béja, Tunisia) is a Tunisian writer and translator.
Life
After obtaining his master's degree in philosophy and social sciences, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Lebanese University.
His first novel, published in 1992, was titled The Time for Elves, and won the prize for best Arabic novel Tawkit Al Binka-Al Naked Prize. His second novel, Sun Tiles, was published five years later, and won the prize for best novel of Tunisia 1997COMAR D'OR Edition 1998.
Publications
Poetry
Edge of the earth
The Night of ancestors
A sixth woman for the senses
Novels
The kingdom of al okhaydhar
Yesterday, Beirut
Dentella
Thresholds of paradise
Translations
Emile Cioran, Fragments chosen
Georges Bataille, Theory of Religion
Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Guy de Maupassant, From Tunis to Kairouan
Roger Icart, The French Revolution on the Screen
Eric Leguèbe, A Century of French Cinema
Trails wind (choice of poems) by Pierre Emmanuel, René Char, Alain Bosquet and Eugène Guillevic
Novels (in Arabic) Riwayet Atabat al janna