Mohamed Choukri

Mohamed Choukri was born on 15 July 1935 at Beni Chiker, in the Rif, into a very poor Riffian-speaking family. Fleeing poverty and a violent father, he grew up on the streets of Tangier among thieves, smugglers and prostitutes. He learned to read and write Arabic only at the age of twenty, then went through teacher training college and became a schoolteacher. His first text appeared in 1966 in the review al-Adab, in Beirut. In Tangier he knew Paul Bowles, Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams, to whom he devoted books of recollections. He died in Rabat on 15 November 2003.

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