Mohamed Mrabet
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Mohammed Mrabet is a Moroccan storyteller who was born in Tangier in 1936. He is of Berber heritage whose family moved to Tangier from the Rif mountains. A fisherman and street kid for most of his life, he became a friend of Paul Bowles in 1960 when Bowles was impressed by his storytelling skills. Bowles became the translator of Mrabet's many oral tales told from a kif'd and utterly non-anglicized point of view. Mrabet is also an artist of intricate ink drawings which have been shown at various galleries in Europe and America. He is his own genre, although mostly known to western readers via his association with Bowles, Burroughs and Tennessee Williams.
[edit] Selected works
(All of the following books were translated into English by Paul Bowles)
- Love with a Few Hairs (1967)
- M'Hashish (1969)
- The Lemon (1969)
- The Boy Who Set the Fire (1974)
- Hadidan Aharam (1975)
- Look and Move On' (1976)
- Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins' (1976)
- The Big Mirror' (1977)
- Short story: "The Lute" in Five Eyes (1979)
- The Beach Cafe & The Voice' (1980)
- The Chest (1983)
- Marriage With Papers (1986)
- Chocolate Creams and Dollars (1992)
- Collected Stories (2004)
[edit] External links
- Official Mohammed Mrabet Web SIte
- Biography of Mohammed Mrabet by Roberto de Hollanda
- Some of his stories translated by Paul Bowles
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