Youssef Fadel

Youssef Fadel was born in Casablanca in 1949. A playwright, he was detained because of a play of 1974, at the Moulay Cherif centre, from November 1974 to the spring of 1975; another of his plays was brought to the screen by Mohamed Reggab in 1982. He taught French in Casablanca, ran the Shems theatre and wrote for the cinema, before devoting himself mainly to the novel; one of his books was a finalist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2014.

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• NovelحشيشYoussef Fadel · 2000not translated into EnglishLiterature