طوق الياسمين

Born August 8, 1954, in the border village of Sidi Bougnane - Tlemcen, he is a collector and novelist. Today, he holds the position of chair professor at the Universities Central Algiers and the Sorbonne in Paris. He is considered one of the most important literary voices in the Arab world. Unlike the founding generation that preceded it, the works of Wassini, who writes in both Arabic and French, belong to the new school that does not settle on a single and fixed form, but always searches for its new and lively expressive ways by working hard on the language and shaking its certainties. Language, in this sense, is not a ready-made and stable given, but a permanent and continuous search. Wassini's innovative experimental power was clearly demonstrated in his novel, which aroused great critical controversy, and is programmed today in many universities in the world: The Seventh Night After a Thousand with its two parts: Sand of Water and the Eastern Manuscript. He interviewed in The Thousand and One Nights, not from the site of repeating history and restoring the text, but from the obsession with the desire to recover lost narrative traditions and understand their internal systems that made the Arab imagination in its richness and the greatness of its openness. In 1997, his novel The Guardian of Shadows (Don Quixote in Algeria) was selected among the five best novels published in France, and was published in more than five consecutive editions, including the popular pocket edition, before being published in a special edition that included the five works. In 2001, he received the Algerian Novel Prize for his overall work. In 2006, he received the Grand Prix of Librarians for his novel: The Prince's Book, which is usually awarded to the most popular and critical book of the year. You get in the year 2007 on Sheikh Zayed Award for Literature. His works have been translated into many foreign languages, including: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Hebrew, English and Spanish.