This is a list of Tunisian writers
- Ines Abassi, poet [Banipal]
- Mohamed Bacha (1968– ) linguist. specialist in Tunisian Arabic. translator. short story writer
- Faouzia Aloui (1958– ), poet and short story writer [Banipal]
- Mahmoud Aslan (1902–after 1971) [Gikandi]
- Hachemi Baccouche (1916–2008), novelist and essayist [Gikandi]
- Hélé Béji (1948– ), novelist and essayist in French [Gikandi]
- Tahar Bekri (1951– ), poet in French and Arabic [Gikandi]
- Noura Bensaad, novelist and short story writer [Banipal]
- Messaouda Boubaker (1954– ), novelist and short story writer [Oxford]
- Hédi Bouraoui (1932– ), poet, novelist and academic
- Aïcha Chaibi, novelist
- Rachida el-Charni (1967– ), novelist and short story writer [Banipal]
- Brahim Dargouthi (1955– ), novelist and member of steering committee of Union of Tunisian Writers
- 'Ali al-Du'aji (1909–1949), novelist [Gikandi]
- Aboul-Qacem Echebbi (1909–1934), poet
- Miled Faiza (1974– ), poet and translator [Banipal]
- Mohamed Ghozzi (1949– ), poet and critic [Banipal]
- Sophie el Goulli (1932–2015), novelist and art historian [Gikandi]
- Gisèle Halimi (1927–2020), lawyer, feminist activist and essayist
- Faraj Hawwar (1954– ), writer, novelist, and researcher
- Fethia Hechmi (1955– ), novelist, short story writer and poet [Oxford]
- Ibn Khaldoun (1332–1406), polymath
- Bashir Khrayyef (1917–1983), writer and teacher [Gikandi]
- Shukri Mabkhout (1962– ), novelist and academic [Oxford]
- Lamia Makaddam (1971– ), poet
- Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946– ), novelist and poet [Gikandi]
- Jamila Mejri (1951– ), poet
- Mahmoud Messadi (1911–2004), novelist and playwright [Gikandi]
- Albert Memmi (1920–2020), sociologist, novelist and essayist [Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]
- Amel Mokhtar (1964– ), novelist and journalist [Oxford]
- Amel Moussa, poet and journalist [Banipal]
- Hassouna Mosbahi (1950– ), novelist and short story writer [Banipal]
- Moncef Ouahibi (1949– ), poet [Banipal]
- Perpetua (died 203), writer of a prison diary from Carthage, The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
- Najwa Al-Rayyahi (1962– ) writer and academic
- Kamel Riahi (1974– ), novelist and short story writer [Banipal]
- Youssef Rzouga (1957– ), poet
- Amina Saïd (1953– ), poet
- Habib Selmi (1951– ), novelist and short story writer [Banipal]
- Walid Soliman (1975– ), writer, essayist and translator
- Alia Tabaï, novelist [Allen]
- Ahmad al-Tifashi (–1253), poet, writer and anthologist
- Mustapha Tlili (1937–2017), novelist and academic [Gikandi]
- Mohamed Ali Yousfi, writer and translator [Banipal]
- Z (active as of 2007), anonymous political cartoonist and writer
- Fawzia Zouari, writer and journalist [Banipal]
- Mohamed El Aziz Ben Achour (1951– ), writer, historian, and politician
- Anis Chouchène, (1982– ), poet and activist
See also
References
- [Gikandi] Simon Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge; 2002. ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3
- [Killam & Rowe] Douglas Killam & Ruth Rowe, eds., The Companion to African Literatures. James Currey & Indiana University Press; 2000. ISBN 0-253-33633-3
- [Banipal] "Modern Tunisian Literature". Banipal. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
- [Allen] Allen, Roger (1995). The Arabic novel: An historical and critical introduction (2nd ed.). Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-2641-1
- [Oxford] Mamelouk, Douja (2017-08-10). Hassan, Waïl S. (ed.). Tunisia (in The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions). 1. Oxford University Press. pp. 455–472. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199349791.013.30.