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Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, Translation, 2025 Translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott.
Farida, a young woman in Tunis, is passionate about reading and loves the French language. But she is compelled to marry Kamel, a brute of a man, who drinks, keeps mistresses, and beats her when she talks back. But she is defiant, and takes comfort from her secret reading. The country is a French colony and male-dominated. Finally after ten years she is granted a divorce by the courts and lives with her son Tewfiq. A smoking, independent-minded divorcee, she sees the country attain its freedom from the French and its arrival into modern times; the growth of her son into a young public servant; and her granddaughter Leila mature into an independent, educated young woman. This is a novel of modern Tunisia told through the lives of its women.
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Monia Mazigh is an award-winning Canadian author and human rights activist. She is an Adjunct and research Professor at Carleton University at the Department of English and Literature. She writes in French and English and has authored a memoir, three novels, and a collection of short stories. Her latest novel,
Farida won the Ottawa Book Award for French fiction.
Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey with a Scar(f) was a finalist for the Governor General Literary Award for Non-fiction in 2023.
Mazigh was a columnist with
ONFr+ and
Radio-Canada. She has published several articles with the
Ottawa Citizen, the
Globe and Mail and the
Toronto Star. She was recently recognized as an honouree of "Distinguished Women of Ottawa" in the category of Lifetime Contribution for her involvement in her community, and she has also received the King Charles Coronation medal for her work in human rights.
