Jean Mohsen Fahmy

Jean Mohsen Fahmy (born 1942) is an Egyptian Canadian writer.^[1] He is most noted for his 2005 novel L'Agonie des dieux, which was the winner of the Trillium Book Award for French fiction in 2006,^[2] and his 2019 novel La sultane dévoilée, which was the winner of the Prix Christine-Dumitriu-Van-Saanen from the Salon du livre de Toronto in 2019.^[3]

He was a shortlisted Trillium finalist on two other occasions, for Amina et le mamelouk blanc in 1999^[4] and for Frères ennemis in 2010.^[5]

Works

Fiction

• Le Désert et le loup (1985)
• Amina et le mamelouk blanc (1998)
• Ibn Khaldoun – L’honneur et la disgrâce (2002)
• Lumières (2003)
• L’Agonie des dieux (2005)
• Alexandre et les trafiquants du désert (2007)
• Frères ennemis (2009)
• Le Berger du soleil (2009)
• Les Chemins de la liberté, tome 1 : Fabien et Marie (2013)
• Les Chemins de la liberté, tome 2 : L'Ultime Voyage (2014)
• La sultane dévoilée (2019)
• Par-delà les frontières (2023)

Non-fiction

• Voltaire et l’amitié (1972)
• Études Rousseau Trent (1980)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau et la société du XVIII siècle (1981)
• Voltaire et Paris (1981)
• Chrétiens d'Orient, le courage et la foi (2015)