Morocco

Abdellah Taïa

Abdellah Taïa was born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1973. He is the first Moroccan and Arab writer to publicly declare his homosexuality. Editions du Seuil has published five of his books, including L'armée…...

Fouad Laroui

Fouad Laroui was born in 1958 in Oujda, Morocco. He is a writer (novels, short stories, poetry and essays) who lives between Casablanca, Amsterdam, and Paris. He won the Albert Camus Prize in 1996 for…...

Khadija Marouazi

Khadija Marouazi was born in Marrakesh in 1961. A member of the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights and general secretary of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Human Rights, she is also a professor…...

Rachida Madani

Rachida Madani was born in Tangiers in 1951; she still lives there. Contes d'une tête tranchée was published in 2001 in Morocco by Editions Al-forkane; the French text was published in…...

Tahar Ben Jelloun

A Moroccan author writing in French, Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in 1944 in Fez and immigrated to France in 1961. He has published numerous novels, collections of poetry, and essays. He won the Prix Goncourt…...

Abdelilah Hamdouchi

Abdelilah Hamdouchi,, one of the first writers of police fiction in the Arabic language, was born in Meknès, Morocco, in 1958. His police novels--which dialogue with current democratic and human…...

Nedjma

Nedjma is a pseudonym. The author of The Almond is in her forties and lives in the Maghreb region.

Anouar Benmalek

Anouar Benmalek was born in Casablanca in 1956 and now lives in France. After the 1988 riots in Algeria in protest of government policies, he became one of the founders of the Algerian Committee Against…...

Hafid Bouazza

Hafid Bouazza (b. 1970) made a striking entry into Dutch literature with his collection of short stories De voeten van Abdullah ( Abdulah's Feet, 1996). Here was a "foreign" literary voice poking fun…...

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