Rachida el-Charni
{{Short description|Tunisian writer}}
Rachida el-Charni (born 1967) is a Tunisian writer. She has published three collections of short stories and one novel.{{Cite web|url=http://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/291/rachida_al-charni/|title=Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature - Contributors - Rachida el-Charni|website=www.banipal.co.uk|access-date=2018-04-28}} 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.{{Cite web |date=2011-11-27 |title=A beautiful failure |url=https://egyptindependent.com/beautiful-failure/ |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=Egypt Independent |language=en-US}}
Prizes
- First prize, Arab Women’s Creative Writing (Sharjah), 2000, for her second collection of short stories{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
- Centre of Arab Woman for Training and Research (Tunisia), 1997, for her first collection of short stories{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Selected works
= Novels =
- Tarateel li-Alamiha (Hymns for her Pain), 2011 {{Cite web |last=mlynxqualey |date=2012-07-01 |title=The Stories of Rachida el-Charni |url=https://arablit.org/2012/07/01/the-short-stories-of-rachida-el-charni/ |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY |language=en-US}}{{Cite journal |last=Tarchouna |first=Mahmoud |date=2014 |title=Awareness of the Present and Prediction of the Future in the Tunisian Novel |url=https://tabayyun.dohainstitute.org/en/issue8/Pages/art06.aspx |journal=Tabayyun |language=ar |volume=2 |issue=8 |pages=91–104 |issn=2305-2465}}
= Short story collections =
- Saheel al-Asaila (The Neighing of Questions), 2002{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
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Category:Tunisian short story writers
Category:21st-century Tunisian writers
Category:21st-century Tunisian women writers
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