‘Champs de Nuit’, a collection of poetry by Jamal Boushaba, has been awarded the Abdelmalek El Laroui Literary Prize.
Immerse yourself in Moroccan literature and books about Morocco
Travellers’ accounts, expatriates’ stories, great classics of Moroccan literature, beautiful books to inspire daydreams… a collection of titles that teach us something about Morocco.
Whether written by Moroccans, French people or foreigners, they all offer us a glimpse of Morocco.
The memoirs of travellers from the pre-colonial era are sometimes historically inaccurate or biased, but they offer a glimpse into ‘the Morocco that was’ (an account by Harris Walter, The Times’ correspondent in Morocco), often steeped in romanticised Orientalism, such as Au Maroc, Pierre Loti’s travelogue.
From the 1950s onwards, the American Paul Bowles translated Moroccan writers such as Mohammed Mrabet and Mohamed Choukri, opening up a more international readership for them.
Moroccan writers, for their part, discovered Western forms of literature during the protectorate. The first modern Moroccan novel was published in French in 1932 (Abdelkader Chatt’s Mosaïques Ternies) and in Arabic in 1966 with Abdelkrim Ghallab’s
A foreigner married into a Berber family is suddenly given the gift of understanding Amazigh. Is this a blessing?
Salman Rushdie and the *Satanic Verses* controversy: a summary for anyone too young to have experienced it.
Would you like to know what to expect when you move to Morocco? Would you…
Les Gens des Nuages, a travel book by Le Clezio that moves from Saguia El Hamra to Tazzarine
Two women in the desert, following the Tuaregs and their caravans, is the story told in ‘Le sel du désert’ (The Salt of the Desert) by Odette du Puigaudeau and Marion Senones.
