Rachida el-Charni

Rachida el-Charni (born 1967) is a Tunisian writer. She has published three collections of short stories and one novel.^[1] Her short story 'Street of the House of Wonders' (also known as 'The way to Poppy Street') was in Habila Helon's The Granta Book of the African Short Story - a collection of short stories from prominent African writers, including Chimamanda Adichie, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Doreen Baingana, Henrietta Rose-Innes, E. C. Osondu, Alex La Guma and Camara Laye among others.^[2]

Prizes

• First prize, Arab Women’s Creative Writing (Sharjah), 2000, for her second collection of short stories^{[citation needed]}
• Centre of Arab Woman for Training and Research (Tunisia), 1997, for her first collection of short stories^{[citation needed]}

Selected works

Novels

• Tarateel li-Alamiha (Hymns for her Pain), 2011 ^[3][4]

Short story collections

• Saheel al-Asaila (The Neighing of Questions), 2002^{[citation needed]}