Hélé Béji

Hélé Béji (Arabic: هالة الباجي; born 1 April 1948) is a Tunisian writer.

[1] The daughter of Tunisian politician Mondher Ben Ammar [fr], she was born in Tunis, passed her Agrégation de lettres modernes and went on to teach literature at the University of Tunis.

[2] She has expressed a great admiration for the author Marcel Proust and his influence can be seen in her fiction.

[4] She is the sister of movie producer Tarak Ben Ammar.

Her niece Yasmine Torjeman-Besson married French politician Éric Besson.