al-Bashīr Khurayyif

Bashir Khrayyef (Arabic: البشير خريف) was a Tunisian novelist and short story writer, born in Nefta in 1917 and regarded as the father of the realist novel in Tunisia. He is best known for the historical novel Barq al-layl (1961) and for al-Digla fi 'arajiniha, set in a southwestern oasis. He also wrote the story collection Mashmum al-Full (1975). He died in 1983.