(Tunisia, 1947) French writer, poet, novelist, art historian, and essayist. Its origins are Arab and Jewish. A Tunisian father and an Algerian mother, he spent his childhood in Paris. After studying public literature, at the age of twenty, his first selection of poems. He then founded the literary magazine Le Point d'être. Twenty novels and essays will follow. He has been part of the Quando Group and the Nouvelle Fiction.

With the shocking novel Palestine, published in Demipage, Hubert Haddad wins the renowned Renaudot Prize 2009 and the Prize of the Five Continents of La Francophonie 2008, in recognition of his work for so many years for having known how to get involved, in a sublime way, in his intellectual, human and literary commitment.