Éditions Elyzad

Éditions Elyzad is a publishing house founded in Tunis in 2005 by Élisabeth Daldoul, a French-Palestinian publisher who grew up in Dakar and lives in Tunisia. Since 2020, the company has also been based in Paris. Elyzad primarily publishes works of literature, mainly fiction in French. Its editorial mission is to promote the voices of contemporary writers from the Arab and African worlds—and beyond—aiming to circulate texts from the south to the north of the Mediterranean and throughout the Francophone world. The publisher’s catalogue includes established authors such as Leïla Sebbar, Tahar Bekri, Sophie Bessis, and Cécile Oumhani, while also introducing new literary voices such as Yamen Manaï, Ilf-Eddine, Azza Filali, Jadd Hilal, and Karim Kattan.

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