Rachida el-Charni explained

Rachida el-Charni (born 1967) is a Tunisian writer. She has published three collections of short stories and one novel.^[1] Her short story 'Street of the House of Wonders' (also known as 'The way to Poppy Street') was in Habila Helon's The Granta Book of the African Short Story - a collection of short stories from prominent African writers, including Chimamanda Adichie, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Doreen Baingana, Henrietta Rose-Innes, E. C. Osondu, Alex La Guma and Camara Laye among others.^[2]

Prizes

• First prize, Arab Women’s Creative Writing (Sharjah), 2000, for her second collection of short stories
• Centre of Arab Woman for Training and Research (Tunisia), 1997, for her first collection of short stories

Selected works

Novels

• Tarateel li-Alamiha (Hymns for her Pain), 2011 ^{[3] [4]}

Short story collections

• Saheel al-Asaila (The Neighing of Questions), 2002

Notes and References

1. Web site: Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature - Contributors - Rachida el-Charni. www.banipal.co.uk. 2018-04-28.
2. Web site: 2011-11-27 . A beautiful failure . 2022-05-22 . Egypt Independent . en-US.
3. Web site: mlynxqualey . 2012-07-01 . The Stories of Rachida el-Charni . 2022-05-22 . ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY . en-US.
4. Tarchouna . Mahmoud . 2014 . Awareness of the Present and Prediction of the Future in the Tunisian Novel . Tabayyun . ar . 2 . 8 . 91–104 . 2305-2465.