Claude Kayat

Claude Kayat (born 24 July 1939, Sfax, Tunisia) is a Franco-Swedish writer, dramatist and painter, born in a Jewish family.

His family left the country in 1955 for Haifa, Israel, where he resided for three years.

Since 1958, he lives in Stockholm, Sweden, where he completed his studies; He got married, had children, and taught as a teacher of French and English.

At the same time, he pursued a career as a novelist in French, a language he has always considered his mother tongue without ever having lived in the country.

In his writing Claude Kayat explores concepts like identity, nationality, skin color and religion. He has also written 26 plays in French and Swedish.

Bibliography

• 1981: Mohammed Cohen, Éditions du Seuil, prix Afrique méditerranéenne 1982
• 1987: Les Cyprès de Tibériade, La Table Ronde, Grand prix du Rayonnement de la langue française
• 1989: Le Rêve d’Esther, La Table Ronde
• 1997: L'Armurier, Le Seuil, prix Ève Delacroix of the Académie française
• 2000: Hitler tout craché, L’Âge d’Homme
• 2002: Le Treizième Disciple, Éditions de Fallois
• 2007: La Synagogue de Sfax, Punctum
• 2012: Le Café de Mme Ben Djamil

Exhibitions

• 2008: Galerie Paname, Stockholm
• 2009: Håfors Galerie
• 2009: Cosmopolitan Galleri, Göteborg
• 2010: Rönnells, Stockholm
• 2011: Chaikhana, Stockholm

External links

• Writings by Claude Kayat
• Albert Bensoussan : La synagogue de Sfax par Claude Kayat
• Claude Kayat on the site of the Académie française
• Claude Kayat on Éditions Léo Sheer
• La corvée des ordures on Sens public