Claude Kayat (born 24 July 1939, Sfax, Tunisia) is a Franco-Swedish writer, dramatist and painter. Since 1958, he lives in Stockholm, Sweden, where he completed his studies; He got married, had children, and worked 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 often explores concepts like identity. He has also written 28 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, 2007: La Synagogue de Sfax, Punctum 2012: Le Café de Mme Ben Djamil 2019: La Paria
Exhibitions 2008: Galerie Paname, Stockholm 2009: Håfors Galerie 2009: Cosmopolitan Galleri, Göteborg 2010: Rönnells, Stockholm 2011: Chaikhana, Stockholm
External links Writings by Claude Kayat
Claude Kayat on the site of the Académie française Claude Kayat on Éditions Léo Sheer La corvée des ordures on Sens public