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Sufyan Rajab (سفيان رجب) (born 1979) is a Tunisian writer born in Enfidha. He began his career as a poet, moving later on to storytelling.


Career

Rajab has a number of publications including critique articles, poetry, and novels. He has published various poems in significant Arab newspapers, in addition to critique articles in the
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newspaper '' The Arabs,'' '' the UAE Cultural Magazine'' and '' Life's'' cultural magazine. Furthermore, he is known to be mentioned in significant files in Tunisian literature, such as in books published by the
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in 2015, joint books between the National Institute for Translation and the Federation of Italian Writers in 2017, along with files prepared by the Swedish magazine ''
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'' in 2018. Moving from poetry to storytelling, '' The Liberal Monkey (2017)'' was his first novel, following up with his second one, '' The American Shoe Factory (2021),'' which discusses
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and the adaptation of new ruling systems Additionally, his short story collection, '' The Last Hour (2018),'' was shortlisted for the Form Story Award 2019 in Kuwait.


List of Publications


Awards

Rajab won various local and Arab poetry awards, including: * ''2007 Moufdi Zakaria Award (Algeria)'' * ''2009 Tanga's Award for Poetry'' * ''2018 Afifi Mattar Award for his collection of poetries, The Air Postman''


See also

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Storytelling Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing narrative, stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatre, theatrics or embellishment. Every culture has its own narratives, which are shared as a means of entertainment, education, cul ...
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Poetry Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...


References

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