Mohammed al-Achaari

Mohammed al-Achaari was born in Zerhoun, near Meknes, in 1951, and graduated from the Faculty of Law in Rabat in 1975. His first work of fiction appeared in Al-Alam in 1967. A journalist at Al-Ittihad al-Ichtiraki, whose Rabat bureau he headed, and editor of the journal Afaq, he was arrested in 1981, then from 1989 chaired the Union of Moroccan Writers. Elected a member of parliament, he was Minister of Culture from 1998 to 2007. A poet before being a novelist, he received the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011 and the Argana Prize for poetry in 2020.

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• Novelجنوب الروحMohammed al-Achaari · 1996not translated into EnglishLiterature