Mohammed Berrada

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Mohammed Berrada (Arabic:محمد برادة) (born 1938 in Rabat) is a Moroccan novelist, literary critic and translator writing in Arabic. He is considered one of Morocco's most important modern authors.

From 1976 to 1983 he was the president of Morocco's writers union. He teaches Arab literature at the faculté des lettres of the Mohammed V University in Rabat. He is a member of the advisory board of the Moroccan literary magazine Prologue.

Mohammed Berrada belonged to a literary movement that wanted to experiment with new techniques of writing (what Moroccan critics call attajrib (experimentation). The text does not give much weight to the plot and is written in independent scenes, images, thoughts and portraits. In the field of language, dialects take on an important role, like for instance Fassi (the dialect of Fez) together with wordplay and allusions.

Since 1978, Berrada has been the husband of Leila Shahid, ambassador of Palestine to the European Union.

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Like a summer that will not come back (Sinbad, 2001) Memories of the summer of 1956 when the author studied in Cairo.
Le théâtre au Maroc : tradition, expérimentation et perspectives (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 1998) .
Lumière fuyante (fleeting light) (1993) : The relation of a painter with two women of different generations, the mother and the daughter.
Le jeu de l’oubli (the game of forgetting) (Eddif, 1987; sa traduction chez Acte Sud, 1993) :the story of an intellectual about his life, fromhis childhood to adulthood in Morocco in the middle of the 20th century.