Sami Mokaddem

Sami Mokaddem (Arabic: سامي المقدم) is a Tunisian novelist, born 5 July 1982 in El Menzah, Tunis. He studied at the Institut des Hautes Études Commerciales de Carthage and worked as a company director before turning to fiction. He writes in both French and Arabic, publishing thrillers steeped in Tunisian and Carthaginian history and myth.

His French-language "Carthage trilogy" — Dix-neuf (2014), Le Sang des anges (2017) and Le Secret des Barcides (2020) — won the Comar d'Or "Discovery" prize and its Special Jury Prize, and was a finalist for the Orange Prize for African Literature (POLA).

His Arabic novels, including Sādat al-'Ālam (سادة العالم, 2021), have made him one of Tunisia's best-known contemporary genre writers.