The ceremony was held in Tunis on 15 December 2023 at the headquarters of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALECSO). The jury, chaired by Bassam Baraké (Lebanon), praised the extensive documentary work carried out by the translator "to meet the challenges of this historical reconstruction that the author Béchir Khraïef sought to offer his readers, whether in terms of place names, numerous intertextual references, terminology relating to the fields of armaments and armoury, music or alchemy".
"Barg Ellil", the masterpiece of Tunisian Arabic novelist Béchir Khraïef, depicts the tribulations of a black slave in the heart of 16th-century Tunisia, against a backdrop of Spanish-Ottoman rivalry.
Samia Kassab-Charfi holds a doctorate in French language and literature, awarded in 2003 in Tunis (Tunisia). A leading specialist in French-language literature from the Caribbean, and in particular Saint-John Perse, Samia Kassab-Charfi currently teaches at the University of Tunis. She is the author of several publications, including: "Mémoires et imaginaires du Maghreb et de la Caraïbe", "Patrick Chamoiseau", ...