Driss El Khouri

Driss El Khouri, whose real name was Driss El Kass, was born in Casablanca in 1939, into a very poor working-class family, according to his own recollections. A poet in his youth, he moved on to the short story and the chronicle; Monte Carlo Doualiya counts him among the first Moroccans published by the Beirut review al-Adab. A journalist at Al-Mouharrir and then at Al-Ittihad al-Ichtiraki, two left-wing newspapers, until his retirement, and a friend of Mohamed Zefzaf and Mohamed Choukri, he also wrote on cinema, theatre and painting. He died in Rabat on 14 February 2022.

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• Short storiesحزن في الرأس والقلبDriss El Khouri · 1973not translated into EnglishLiterature