Bahaa Trabelsi

{{Short description|Moroccan writer (born 1966)}}

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Bahaa Trabelsi ({{langx|ar|بهاء طرابلسي}}; born 1966) is a Moroccan novelist,Susanne Heiler, Der maghrebinische Roman: Eine Einführung, 2005, p. 184{{cite book|last1=ʻĀshūr|first1=Raḍwá|last2=Ghazoul|first2=Ferial Jabouri|last3=Reda-Mekdashi|first3=Hasna|first4=Mandy|last4=McClure|title=Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MB6gphBXU0kC&pg=PA330|date=1 January 2008|publisher=American Univ in Cairo Press|isbn=978-977-416-146-9|pages=330–}} journalist, and screenwriter.

Trabelsi was born in Rabat Morocco and went to secondary French school in Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca). Trabelsi left Morocco at the age of 18 for Grenoble to study economics. Thereafter her graduation in economic studies (PhD) from the university of Aix en Provence she returned to Morocco to work in a governmental agency for three years.

Trabelsi turned to journalism and worked for several Moroccan newspapers and magazines and became editor-in-chief of the Moroccan magazine Masculin.

Bahaa Trabelsi is a prominent member of an AIDS association, an active member of civil society a feminist and has participated in the creation of several associations, including Women and Development.[https://www.medi1tv.com/fr/episode/71546/26-miniutes-avec-Bahaa-Trabelsi MEDI 1 TV - 26 minutes with Bahaa Trabelsi]

She is the author of seven successful novels Une femme tout simplement (1995). Une Vie à trois (2000). Slim (2005). Parlez-moi d'amour! (2014). La chaise du concierge (2017). Souviens toi qui tu es (2019).Dialogue joyeux avec un mort (2022).

In 2014, Bahaa Trabelsi received the Ivoire Literary Award, for her novel Parlez-moi d'amour!.[https://news.abidjan.net/articles/514536/culture-et-litterature-africaine-prix-ivoire-2014-la-marocaine-bahaa-trabelsi-sacree-laureate The Prix Ivoire is awarded to Parlez-moi d'amour]

In 2017, The Keeper's Chair, her fifth novel, won the 2017 Sofitel Literary Award.[https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/04/213388/sofitel-tour-blanche-sings-praises-womens-literature Keeper's chair wins the Sofitel Literary award]

In 2018, the novel La Chaise du Concierge is translated into Italian by Editions Le Assassine in Italy.[https://edizionileassassine.it/autore/bahaa-trabelsi/ Edizioni le assassine : Autore]

In 2022, Bahaa Trabelsi was appointed president of the Moroccan Film Center's national film production fund commission.[https://www.ccm.ma/soutien-a-la-production1 Moroccan Film Center: Commission members list]