Ahmed Sefrioui

Ahmed Sefrioui
Born 1915
Fez, Morocco
Died February 25, 2004
Rabat, Morocco
Occupation novelist, writer
Language French
Notable works Le chapelet d'ambre
La Boîte à merveilles
La maison de servitude
Le jardin des sortilèges ou le parfum des légendes

Ahmed Sefrioui (Arabic: أحمد صفروي) (January 1, 1915 - February 25, 2004) was a Moroccan novelist and pioneer of Moroccan literature in the French language.

Biography

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]

References

  1. Salim Jay, Dictionnaire des écrivains marocains, Eddif, 2005, p. 320
  2. Simon Gikandi, Encyclopedia of African Literature, ed. Taylor & Francis, 2003, ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3, p. 677

Books


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