Adam Fathi (real name: GASMI Fathi) is a Tunisian poet and translator born in 1957. He published several poetry collections including: Sept lunes pour la gardienne de la tour ('Seven moons for the tower keeper'), 1982 ; Chants pour la fleur de poussière ('Songs for the dust flower'), 1991 ; Le souffleur de verre aveugle ('The blind glassblower'), 2011. He is the translator into Arabic of several works including: Journaux intimes by Charles Baudelaire (autobiography) ; Avicenne ou la route d'Ispahan by Gilbert Sinoué (novel) ; Adieu Babylone by Naim Kattan (novel) ; Histoire et utopie by E.M.Cioran (essay)… Adam Fathi is the 2019 laureate of the Sargon Poulus prize for poetry and translation. His poetry collection Le souffleur de verre also received the Abul kacim Chabbi prize in 2012.
