# 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.

## Books

- [Palace Walk](https://africantales.net/books/palace-walk), Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, 1956
- [Season of Migration to the North](https://africantales.net/books/season-of-migration-to-the-north), Tayeb Salih, Sudan, 1966
- [Woman at Point Zero](https://africantales.net/books/woman-at-point-zero), Nawal El Saadawi, Egypt, 1975
- [The Sand Child](https://africantales.net/books/the-sand-child), Tahar Ben Jelloun, Morocco, 1985
- [In the Country of Men](https://africantales.net/books/in-the-country-of-men), Hisham Matar, Libya, 2006
- [The Meursault Investigation](https://africantales.net/books/the-meursault-investigation), Kamel Daoud, Algeria, 2013
- [Lullaby](https://africantales.net/books/lullaby), Leïla Slimani, Morocco, 2016

## See also

- [North African literature](https://africantales.net/regions/north-africa)
- [North African classics](https://africantales.net/regions/north-africa/classic)
- [African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/genres/literary-fiction)

Source: https://africantales.net/regions/north-africa/literary-fiction