Abdellatif Laâbi

Abdellatif Laâbi was born in Fez in 1942. A graduate in French literature of the University of Rabat, he taught French at a lycée in the city and in 1966, with other poets, founded the review Souffles, which opened its pages to painters, filmmakers and researchers before being banned in 1972. Imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to ten years for a crime of opinion, he was held from 1972 to 1980, then went into exile in France in 1985. A translator of Arabic literature, he received the Prix Goncourt de la poésie in 2009 and the Grand Prix de la francophonie of the Académie française in 2011.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelL'Œil et la NuitAbdellatif Laâbi · 1969not translated into EnglishLiterature