Abdelkébir Khatibi

Abdelkébir Khatibi was born in El Jadida on 11 February 1938 and wrote his first poems at the age of twelve, in Arabic and then in French. He studied sociology at the Sorbonne, where in 1965 he defended a thesis on the Maghrebi novel. Back in Morocco, he taught at Mohammed V University in Rabat and became close to Roland Barthes. A sociologist, novelist, poet and art critic, he also wrote on Arabic calligraphy and on the Moroccan carpet. He died in Rabat on 16 March 2009.

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• NovelTattooed MemoryLa Mémoire tatouéeAbdelkébir Khatibi · 1971Literature