During the recent years the name of Khabib Saruri (born in 1956) has become widely known by Yemen's readers; a prose-writer, a poet and publicist of Yemen origin he has constantly lived in France since 1976. The reason for this writer's popularity has been not so much his literary skill, which has been in a state of formation, as his "western" outspokenness on subjects of politics, religion and the sensual aspect of love, which has invariably ensured success for the other Arab authors' works, too, during the last decades.