My Torturess

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Philosopher and writer, Bensalem Himmich (former Minister of Culture in Morocco) is the author of a number of works (in both Arabic and French). Four of his novels have been translated in many languages. He has won a number of prizes and distinctions, including the Naguib Mahfouz Prize (the American University in Cairo, 2002), the Sharjah-UNESCO Prize (2003), the Diploma and Medal of the Academic Society of Arts and Letters (Paris, 2009) — for his works as a whole, the Naguib Mahfouz Prize of the Egyptian Writers Union (2009), and the Prize of the Academy of Floral Games in Toulouse, France (2011). His novel, My Torturess, was nominated for the International Arabic Fiction Prize (the “Arab Booker”) in 2011.

Roger Allen won the 2012 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for his translation of A Muslim Suicide by Bensalem Himmich (Syracuse University Press, 2011). He has also translated two other novels by Himmich: The Polymath (2004) and The Theocrat (2005). Allen retired from his position as the Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. He is the author and translator of numerous books and articles on modern Arabic fiction, novels, and stories.

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