Out of Play, the Dead

Claude Benady was born in Tunis in 1922; his father was Jewish and his mother Christian. He studied at the Collège des Maristes and the Lycée Carnot. Mobilized in 1942, he fought in the Tunisian, French, and German campaigns. After the war, Benady founded several magazines, including La Kahena and Périples, a literary magazine that became the focus of poetry recitals and avant-garde salons. In 1957, he moved to France, where he was a producer for French Radio and Television (RTF) and opened a bookstore called Périples. His works often expressed the nostalgia of Tunisian Jewish exiles. In 1976, he was awarded the Prix de l’Afrique mediterranéenne for Marguerite à la source (1975).