North African literary fiction

Writers include Naguib Mahfouz, Tayeb Salih, Nawal El Saadawi, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Hisham Matar and others. Set in or written from Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Sudan. First published 1956 to 2016.

• Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, 1956
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, Sudan, 1966
• Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, Egypt, 1975
• The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Morocco, 1985
• In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar, Libya, 2006
• The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, Algeria, 2013
• Lullaby by Leïla Slimani, Morocco, 2016

See also

• North African literature
• North African classics
• African literary fiction