Michèle Fitoussi

Michèle Fitoussi (born 24 November 1954) is a French writer. She is of Tunisian-Jewish descent.^[1]

2018

Biography

Fitoussi was born in Tunis, Tunisia.

Besides writing fiction and non-fiction, Fitoussi was an editor of French Elle magazine.^[2]

She is the co-author, along with Malika Oufkir, of Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, an exposé of the Moroccan penal system.^[3] She first met Malika Oufkir in March 1997 eight months after Malika had arrived in France from Morocco.^[4] Stolen Lives was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 2001.^[5]

Fitoussi's novel Victor was adapted into a feature film, released in 2009.^[6]

Selected works

• Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (by Malika Oufkir)
• Fitoussi, Michèle (2020). Janet: roman. Paris. ISBN 9782253257721.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Le ras-le-bol des superwomen
• Le dernier qui part ferme la maison
• Victor
• Un bonheur effroyable
• L'étrangère (by Malika Oufkir)
• Des gens qui s'aiment
• Cinquante centimètres de tissu propre et sec
• Gente que se ama