Biography
Inès Abbassi is a Tunisian poet, writer and translator. She has written the novels Ashkal (2016) and Menzel Bourguiba, for which she received the Komar Prize in 2018. She has published short stories (Hashasha) and travel literature (Shahrazad's Korean Tales). She was awarded the Kredif Prize for Tunisian Women Writers for her poetry collections Asrar al-Reih (2004) and Archive of the Blind (2007).
She has translated several works, including José Mauro de Vasconcelos' My Magnificent Orange Tree (2017) and Sorge Chalendon's The Father's Profession (2021).