- Kemal Ben Hameda’s (1954-, Libya) – La compagnie des Tripolitains (2011, English trans. Under the Tripoli Sky, 2014). Written in French, this novel tells a fictional account of a young boy named Hadachinou as he grows up in Tripoli of the 1960s listening to the stories told by the ill-treated women around him. The main part of the novel is formed by the voices of his mother and her relatives and friends who represent a cosmopolitan ‘Tripolitanian’ mix of Italians, Amazigh, sub-Saharan Africans, and Arabs, and who tell of Libya’s past through their recollections and through folkloric tales (reference).
- Farīdah al-Maṣrī (1965-, Libya) – Uṣṭūrat al-Baḥr (‘Myth of the sea’, 2014) looks at the city of Tripoli and describes its customs, rituals, and architecture, but also the despair of its inhabitants resulting from the destruction and devastation that followed.
Refrences:
- Charis Olszok. 2016. “Creating memory: animal tales and deep history in Modern Libya fiction.” MEL 19 (3): 260-277, p. 262