Meeting at the headquarters of the International Organization of La Francophonie in Paris on December 6, 2016, the members of the jury of the 5 continents of La Francophonie appointed the winner of this 15th edition.
It is the Tunisian novelist Fawzia Zouari who wins the prize for her novel “The body of my mother”, announces the OIF.
In this novel, the Tunisian narrator tells her relations with her mother.
Fawzia Zouari, born in Kef, is a Tunisian writer and journalist. Doctor of French and comparative literature of the Sorbonne, she has lived in Paris since 1979.
She worked at the Institute of the Arab World – in various positions including that of editor of Qantara magazine – before becoming a journalist at the weekly Jeune Afrique in 1996.
Among its publications: the Caravan des Chimères (Olivier Orban, Paris, 1981), this country I meurs (Ramsay, Paris, 1999), La Rourtée (Ramsay, Paris, 2002), the Islamic veil (Favre, Paris, 2002), to end Avc Shahrazah (Edisud, Aix-en-Provence, 2003), this veil that tears France (Ramsay, Paris 2004), the second wife (Ramsay, Paris, 2006). She participates in many television programs on the evolution of Arab countries.
