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NarrativeThe Travels of Ibn Battutaرحلة ابن بطوطةIbn Battuta and Ibn Juzayy · 1355The account of a jurist from Tangier on the Muslim world of the fourteenth century, dictated in Fez on his return and set down in writing by a scholar of the Marinid court.Literature
CinemaMektoubJoseph Pinchon and Daniel Quintin · 1919The first fiction film shot in Morocco, a drama of manners set in the time of the grand vizier Ba Ahmed, written by an anthropologist.Cinema
Short storiesLe Chapelet d'ambreAhmed Sefrioui · 1949not translated into EnglishThe common people of the Fez medina, donkey drivers, craftsmen and mystics, seen from the inside by one of the first Moroccan writers in French.Literature
TaleContes berbères du MarocÉmile Laoust · 1949not translated into EnglishTales from central Morocco, the High Atlas and the Anti-Atlas, in which the jackal and the ogre play the leading roles.Literature
NovelThe Simple PastLe Passé simpleDriss Chraïbi · 1954A son rises up against a devout and all-powerful father, in a Morocco about to become independent.Literature
Novelفي الطفولةAbdelmajid Benjelloun · 1957not translated into EnglishA childhood between Manchester and Fez, in one of the first autobiographical narratives of Moroccan literature in Arabic.Literature
Cinemaالابن العاقMohamed Ousfour · 1958The first long fiction film by a self-taught Moroccan filmmaker, shot in the first years of independent Morocco.Cinema
Poetryديوان مصطفى المعداويMustafa Maadawi · 1963not translated into EnglishThe posthumous collection of a poet from Casablanca, between songs of the resistance and a more intimate voice.Literature
Novelدفنا الماضيAbdelkrim Ghallab · 1966not translated into EnglishThe national struggle and the critique of old customs, seen through a great house in Fez on the eve of independence.Literature
Theatreديوان سيدي عبد الرحمن المجذوبTayeb Saddiki · 1966not translated into EnglishPublic-square theatre brought to the stage, around a Sufi poet whose verses have become proverbs.Literature
NovelAgadirMohammed Khaïr-Eddine · 1967A city's earthquake told by a text that breaks apart in turn, between narrative, poem and theatre.Literature
Cinemaالحياة كفاحAhmed Mesnaoui and Mohamed Tazi · 1968A carpenter's son from the Rif tries his luck in Casablanca as a singer, in a melodrama shot in haste for a festival in Tangier.Cinema
NovelL'Œil et la NuitAbdellatif Laâbi · 1969not translated into EnglishA battered body, neither dead nor alive, speaks in the aftermath of a suppressed riot and a lost war.Literature
PoetryD'un soleil réticentZaghloul Morsy · 1969not translated into EnglishThe first collection of a French-language Moroccan poet, nourished by Rimbaud as much as by the Arab poets.Literature
Cinemaشمس الربيعLatif Lahlou · 1969A minor clerk from the countryside wears himself out in the Casablanca of his day, alone in the city.Cinema
CinemaTracesوشمةHamid Bénani · 1970An orphan's revolt against a traditional adoptive father, in the film that opened auteur cinema in Morocco.Cinema
PoetryL'horizon est d'argileMohammed Loakira · 1971not translated into EnglishThe first collection by a Marrakesh poet from the Souffles circle, published in France in the early seventies.Literature
NovelTattooed MemoryLa Mémoire tatouéeAbdelkébir Khatibi · 1971The first novel by a Moroccan sociologist, a coming-of-age narrative subtitled “Autobiographie d'un décolonisé”.Literature
NovelEspoir vagabondMohamed Aziz Lahbabi · 1972not translated into EnglishA Maghrebi novel written by a philosopher from Fez, who translated it into French himself.Literature
Novelالمرأة والوردةMohamed Zefzaf · 1972not translated into EnglishThe first novel by a Moroccan writer, about an idle Moroccan emigrant on the Spanish coast.Literature
CinemaA Thousand and One Handsألف يد ويدSouheil Ben Barka · 1972From dyed thread to exported carpet, the toil of a family of dyers in Marrakech who work for wealthy merchants.Cinema
Short storiesحزن في الرأس والقلبDriss El Khouri · 1973not translated into EnglishThe first collection by a short-story writer from Casablanca, between sadness and irony, on the side of the working classes.Literature
NarrativeFor Bread Aloneالخبز الحافيMohamed Choukri · 1973The childhood of a boy from the Rif, in the slums of Tangier, told without gloss; first published in English, in 1973.Literature
Cinemaسكوت اتجاه ممنوعAbdallah Mesbahi · 1973A young man rises up against the life his parents would like him to lead, in a sung melodrama carried by a star of popular song.Cinema
CinemaAbout Some Meaningless Eventsأحداث بلا دلالةMostafa Derkaoui · 1974Filmmakers ask the people of Casablanca about the cinema they hope for, until the day a worker kills his employer, in a fiction mixed with documentary.Cinema
PoetryThe Thousand and Second NightLa Mille et Deuxième NuitMostafa Nissabouri · 1975A long poem by the Souffles generation, in which a resurrected Scheherazade confronts a city of blood and disappearances.Literature
CinemaOh the Days!الأيام الأيامAhmed El Maânouni · 1978An eldest son dreams of leaving to work in France while his mother wants to keep him in the village, in a fiction acted by peasants.Cinema
CinemaالقنفوديNabyl Lahlou · 1978An obscure orchestra conductor and a lottery, won or dreamed, that changes nothing in his life, in a comedy based on a play.Cinema
CinemaA Breach in the Wallجرحة في الحائطJillali Ferhati · 1978Tangier and its margins seen by a man who neither hears nor speaks.Cinema
CinemaThe MirageالسرابAhmed Bouanani · 1979A peasant finds money hidden in flour and loses his way in the city trying to change it, in a fable of the years of French tutelage.Cinema
CinemaThe Barber of the Poor Districtحلاق درب الفقراءMohamed Reggab · 1982A craftsman of Casablanca driven out of his premises by a local notable, and the friend who urges him not to give in.Cinema
CinemaThe EmbersالجمرةFarida Bourquia · 1982Three orphans, whose father was lynched for a crime he had not committed, search for the real culprit.Cinema
CinemaباموDriss Mrini · 1983Two lovers caught up in the resistance to foreign occupation, in the home of a couple attached to their heritage.Cinema
PoetryLes Fables du douteNoureddine Bousfiha · 1984not translated into EnglishA collection of poems by an author from Marrakech, between doubt and certainty, reissued and expanded much later.Literature
CinemaالورطةMustapha Khayat · 1984A peasant goes up to town to buy the equipment his village needs and finds his daughter there, placed as a servant.Cinema
Cinema44 or Tales of the Night44 أو أسطورة الليلMoumen Smihi · 1985The whole period of the French protectorate seen through two families that everything separates, told in several voices.Cinema
NovelThe Sacred NightLa Nuit sacréeTahar Ben Jelloun · 1987The sequel to a cruel tale about a girl raised as a boy, who takes back her woman's name and her freedom.Literature
NovelالجنازةAhmed El Madini · 1987not translated into EnglishA novel in several voices about the Casablanca of those disappointed by independence, among bars, shantytown and newsroom.Literature
NovelThe Game of Forgettingلعبة النسيانMohammed Berrada · 1987An intellectual looks back on his mother's death and on the old family house in Fez, between the protectorate and independence.Literature
PoetryالفروسيةAhmed El Majjati · 1987not translated into EnglishThe only collection by a poet from Casablanca, in which the Arab cities bear the reverses and revolts of the sixties.Literature
CinemaA Door to the Skyباب السماء مفتوحFarida Benlyazid · 1988A young woman returned from France turns her father's house in Fez into a spiritual refuge for women.Cinema
Cinemaالمطرقة والسندانHakim Noury · 1990An exemplary civil servant learns that he is being retired before his time.Cinema
CinemaA Love in Casablancaحب في الدار البيضاءAbdelkader Lagtaâ · 1991A schoolgirl left alone by bereavement and the flight of her family hesitates between a mature man and a young photographer.Cinema
CinemaIn Search of My Wife's Husbandالبحث عن زوج امرأتيMohamed Abderrahmane Tazi · 1993A jeweller from Fez sends away his youngest wife, regrets it, and must find her another husband in order to take her back.Cinema
Novelجنوب الروحMohammed al-Achaari · 1996not translated into EnglishThe saga of a Rif family settled in the Zerhoun, between exile and the longing to return.Literature
CinemaأوشتامMohamed Ismail · 1998An old man recovers his sight and hides it from his family, in a northern village under Spanish occupation.Cinema
CinemaFarewell Travelling PlayerBye-Bye SouirtyDaoud Aoulad-Syad · 1998A sick fairground man, his son and a cross-dressing dancer take a lottery stall around a parched south.Cinema
CinemaمبروكDriss Chouika · 1999A comedy about a Marrakech craftsman and the donkey that a rich foreign woman wants to buy from him.Cinema
NovelحشيشYoussef Fadel · 2000not translated into EnglishA novel of the Moroccan margins, between the hashish trade and the dream of leaving the country.Literature
CinemaDu paradis à l'enferSaid Souda · 2000A killer who has returned home thinks he will find shelter there, and the mother of his last victim pursues him.Cinema
Cinemaقصة وردةAbdelmajid Rchich · 2000A married woman wants a divorce in order to join the love of her youth, now out of prison, and her husband refuses.Cinema
CinemaياقوتJamal Belmajdoub · 2000A disgraced man writes the love letters of a handsome, witless friend, in a Moroccan transposition of two classics.Cinema