Kamal Ben Hameda was born in Tripoli in 1954. In his early twenties he moved to France. He now lives in Holland, where he works as a Jazz musician and writer. Kamal has published several collections of poetry. In 2012 La Compagnie des Tripolitaines (Under the Tripoli Sky) was nominated for the Prix litteraire francophone de l'Alliance francaise, Prix du Livre les Orientales and Le Prix Ulysse.
'The reader feels he is peeking through a half-drawn curtain on a secret feminine world in a patriarchal society ... Excellent.' David Mills, SUNDAY TIMES ------ 'Beautifully simple and restrained prose.' Lucy Popescu, HUFFINGTON POST ------ 'It ought to be commended for its lack of sentimentality about this much-mythologized chapter of modern Libya.' Hasham Matar, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ------ 'A short but shimmering read.' Malcolm Forbes, NATIONAL
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