kamelriahi

Curriculum Vitae Kamel Riahi Novelist, critic, broadcaster who produces and presents programmes for radio and television. Initiated and founded Beit al-Riwaya (Centre for the Novel) and behind the Beit al Khayal (House of Fiction) salon and creative-writing lab. Since the 1990s regular contributor to Arab and international cultural media. Writes and presents programmes about the novel on Tunisian radio and television: Beit al-Khayal on El Watania 1, and Inhiyaz (Bias) on Radio Tunisie Culture. Run a large number of workshops in creative, journalistic, and critical writing in Tunisia and the Arab world. Education : • 02-2005: Post Graduate Degree in Arabic Language and Literature - Faculty Of Letters, Arts and Humanities of La Manouba(Tunisia) • 06-2011 : Bachelor’s Degree in Arabic Language and Literature - University of Tunis (Higher Institute of Language) Work Experiences: - 2022-2023: Guest Lecturer University of Toronto. Toronto,Canada • 2021- 2022 : Writer-in-Residence Department of English Language and Literature Carleton University Ottawa, Canada • 2010 - 2018 : Ministry of Culture Director of the Cultural Centers (Al Mohamadiah- ibn khaldoun )Tunisia • 2018 -2021 : Ministry of Culture Director and founder of the House of the Novel City of Culture- Tunisia. • 2017 till 2021: Presenter and Producer of “Inhiyaz” Radio program Tunis Cultural Radio Station • 2014-2021: Creative writing workshops trainer House of fiction • 2000 - 2021: Writer and Literary Critic Aljazeera- Ultrasawt-rasseef22- TheNewYorkTimes Doha magazine. • 2015 - 2016: Presenter and Producer of House of Fiction “bayt al khayal” TV program Tunisian National Television/ al Wataniya 1 • 2009 - 2010 : head of the translation department at the Arab Higher Institute for Translation in Algeria. • 2005-2007: Temporary professor Higher Institute of Languages in Tunisia. Literature • Nawaris al-Dhakira (Seagulls of Memory) – short story collection, 1999. • Suriqa Wajhi (My Face Was Stolen) – short story collection, 2001. • Al-Mishrat (The Scalpel) – novel, winner of the Comar d’or prize 2006; 2nd edn, Dar al-Junoub, Tunis, 2007; 3rd edn, Dar al-Saqi, Beirut, 2012. • Al-Ghorila (Gorilla/One Night in Tunis) ¬– novel, 2011. • ‘Ashiqat al-Nadhl (The Rouge’s Lovers) – novel, Dar al-Saqi, 2015. • Wahid-Sifr lil-Qatil (One-Nil to the Dead Man) – diary, Mediterranean Publications, Milan, Italy, 2018. • Al-Beretta Yaksibu Da’iman ( Beretta Always Wins), al-Mutawassit, Milano 2020. Criticism • Harakat al-Sard al-Riwa’i (The Movement of Fictional Narrative) – Dar Mijdalawi, Jordan, 2005. • Al-Kitaba al-Riwa’iya ‘ind Wacini Laraj (The Novels of Wacini Laraj) – Karim Sharif Publications, Tunis, 2009. • Thus Spoke Philippe Lejeune ¬– Interview in the Hakadha Tahaddatha (Thus Spoke) series, 2010. • This Spoke Wacini Laraj¬ – Interview in the Hakadha Tahaddatha (Thus Spoke) series, 2010. • Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid: Al-Tafkir fi Wajh al-Takfir (Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid: Thinking in the face of takfir) ¬– Karim Sharif Publications, Tunis, 2014. • Fann al-Riwaya (The Art of the Novel) – Algeria Reads, 2018; 2nd edn, Sotumedias, Tunis, 2019. Complete works and selections have been translated into French, Italian, English, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish, Polish,Hebrew and Persian. Awards • Ibn Battuta Prize for Memoir in 2018 for Wahid-Sifr lil-Qatil. • Academia Prize for best cultural programme on Tunisian television for House of Fiction, 2015 • Hay Festival Prize for the 39 best Arab writers. • Comar d’or Prize for best Tunisian novel 2007 for Al-Mishrat. • Only Tunisian writer to be included in the Beirut 39, 2009. • Selected as one of the five best writers under forty for the IPAF, 2010. • Short Story Prize, Cairo, Diwan al-Arab, 2005.