Fawzia Zouari (Arabic: فوزية الزواري), born 10 September 1955[1] in Dahmani, is a Tunisian writer and journalist.
The Caravan of the chimeras, published in 1989 and which takes up the subject of her thesis, is devoted to the journey of Valentine de Saint-Point, grand-niece of Alphonse de Lamartine, a muse of Futurism, who wanted to reconcile the Orient and the West, and settled in Cairo after converting to Islam[3][4][5] Her most recent works refer to the Maghrebian woman settled in Western Europe.
This country of which I am dying, published in 1999 and inspired by a news story, tells a fictionalized story of the lives of two Algerian worker daughters, uprooted as uncomfortably in their societies of origin as in their new country[6][7] La Retournée, a novel published in 2002, narrates in an ironic tone the life of a Tunisian intellectual living in France who could no longer return to his native village.
The same year, The Second Wife appeared, featuring three Maghrebi women frequented simultaneously by the same man, and again inspired by a news item.
She also received the Comar d'or, the top literary prize in Tunisia, in 2007 for her novel La Deuxième épouse.