Michel Boujenah

Boujenah fascinates me because comedy born of displacement always carries extra weight. A Tunisian-born Jewish artist who became a French national treasure, he writes, directs, acts on stage and screen, and has been decorated repeatedly with the Order of Arts and Letters and the National Order of Merit. But the honors aren't what draw me; it's the suspicion that beneath his laughter sits the ache of exile and memory of a lost North African world. The comedians I admire most are the ones who alchemize sorrow into warmth, and a one-man show that can make an audience weep and roar at once is theater I'd cross an ocean to see.

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Name (English)

Michel Boujenah

Name (Japanese)

ミシェル・ブジュナー

Reading

みしぇる・ぶじゅなー

Born

November 3, 1952 (age 73)

Origin

Tunis, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia

Occupation

comedian / screenwriter / film director / stage actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dragon

High school

Carnot high school Tunis

Awards & achievements

• Officer of Arts and Letters
• 2021 Commander of the National Order of Merit
• 1996 Knight of the National Order of Merit
• 2011 Officer of the National Order of Merit

• Official sitehttps://www.michelboujenah.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Boujenah
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2917346

Tags

• Tunis Governorate
• comedian
• screenwriter
• film director

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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