Abdelwahab Meddeb

Abdelwahab Meddeb , born in 1946 with Tunis, is a writer and Poète free - Tunisia N.

Director of the international review Maze , it teaches the Littérature compared with the Université Paris X. He is also professor invited in many universities (of which Yale and Geneva). He animates the emission Cultures of Islam on France Culture.

In its polymorphic and transgeneric work (energy of the poem to the Test while passing by the Romance ), it attempts to honor what it calls its “double genealogy”, European and Islamic, French and Arab. Its work, transborder, acts on the reader according to poetic and an esthetics of the interstitial one, in search of what interferes between the languages and the cultures, the creeds and the imaginary ones. Its aiming tends to reconcile the discovery of amazing by maintaining the discussion with the Old ones, whatever their origin: this conversation with deaths mingles the voices with the Présocratiques with those of the soufis, those of the Arab and Persan poets to those of the medieval poets belonging to the various Romance traditions for which it is advisable to add what reaches us of the Masters of the China and of the traditional Japan. However Meddeb grants a place privileged to the echoes which resound between the texts of Ibn Arabî and those of Dante through which it perceives the ancestors of its cultural crossing. Its last tests confirm a distinct engagement and radical against the quarrelsome exclusivism of the Intégrisme which he diagnoses as being the “disease of Islam”. Its work, whatever are the support and the stakes, is located in the horizon cosmopolitic of a weltliteratur always to come, that it enriches by opening-up by the Arab and Islamic references.

In 2002, it receives the Prix François Mauriac for the disease of Islam and the Prix max Jacob for his collection of poetries Matière of the birds . In 2007, it receives the International prize of francophonie Benjamin Fondane for Against-sermons .

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