Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is a Tunisian-French author and philosopher. He wrote his first novel Cancer at the age of 20. Before the appearance of his second novel, 1993, he turned his attention to philosophy, and in recent years has published numerous controversial essays, most recently Dieu : La mémoire, la techno-
science et le Mal (2017), Artaud et la théorie du complot (2015).