Albert Memmi

Albert Memmi (1920 - 2020) was a prominent Tunisian writer and intellectual, most celebrated for his book The Colonizer and Colonized. Described as 'the Tunisian Balzac' by the New York Times, he counted amongst his fans Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, and the Nobel Prize-winning Nadine Gordimer. The Pillar of Salt was the first of his four novels, for which he was awarded the Prix de Carthage and the Prix Fénéon. He died in Paris in 2020.