Ahmed Sefrioui
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Ahmed Sefrioui (Arabic: أحمد صفروي) was a Moroccan novelist and pioneer of Moroccan literature in the French language. He was born in Fes in 1915 of Berber parents.[1]
Sefrioui was founder of the Al Batha museum in Fes, a town that is present in almost all of his writings. After the Qur'an school and the schools of Fes Sefrioui has made French his own. As a young journalist for "Action du Peuple" and as writer of historical articles as a curator for the "Addoha" museum he mastered the language. After 1938 he worked at the government departments of culture, education and tourism in Rabat. He died in 2004.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Salim Jay, Dictionnaire des écrivains marocains, Eddif, 2005, p. 320
- ^ Simon Gikandi, Encyclopedia of African Literature, ed. Taylor & Francis, 2003, ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3, p. 677
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- Le chapelet d'ambre (Le Seuil, 1949) : His first novel centered on Fez (for this novel he receives "le grand prix littéraire du Maroc")
- La boîte à merveille (Le Seuil, 1954) : the city of Fez, as seen through the eyes of the little Mohammed. This novel about traditions and life in the city was a milestone for Moroccan literature.
- La maison de servitude (SNED, Algérie, 1973)
- Le jardin des sortilèges ou le parfum des légendes (L'Harmattan, 1989).
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