Edmond Amran el Maleh

Edmond Amran El Maleh (born in 1917 with Safi, Morocco) is a Moroccan writer.

Biography

He was born within an Jewish family originating in Essaouira. Person in charge of the Moroccan Communist party (then clandestine), it militates for the national independence of Morocco. Then, ceasing any political activity, it leaves Morocco in 1965, the year when the dictatorship of Hassan II is essential.

El Maleh is then professor of philosophy and journalist with Paris. Starting from 1980, at 63 years, it starts to write a series of novels and a collection of news. Its writings all are impregnated of a Jewish memory and Arabic who celebrates the cultural symbiosis of Arab Morocco , Berbère and Juif.

Rewards

It received, in 1996, the Grand Prix of Morocco for the whole of its work.

Quotation

“Writing in French, I knew that I did not write in French. There was this singular Clerc's Office of a language on the other, my native tongue Arabic, this interior fire. ” Edmond Amran el-Maleh, the literary Magazine , March 1999.

Works

motionless Course , Maspéro, 1980, republished by Andre Dimanche, 2001
Aïlen or the night of the account , the Discovery, 1983, republished by Andre Dimanche, 2000
Jean Genet, the Prisoner in love and other tests , the wild Thought/Toubkal, 1988
Thousand years, one day, the Fennec, 1990, republished by Andre Dimanche, 2002
the Return of Abou El Haki , the wild Thought, 1990
Abner, Abnour , the Thought sauvage/Le Fennec, 1996
the mesh of Sidi Maâchou , Al Manar, 1998
blue coffee. Zrirek , the wild Thought, 1999
a woman, a mother , Lixus editions, 2004

This article is the integral copy of the card of BiblioMonde (on line since 2002) on this writer: http://www.bibliomonde.com/auteur/edmond-amran-maleh-74.html

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