- Salim Jay
Salim Jay (born in 1951) is a Moroccan
novelist ,essayist andliterary critic . He was born inParis from a Moroccan father and a French mother. He has written about 20 books, numerousessay s and more than thousandnewspaper article s.His "Dictionnaire des Écrivains marocains", published in 2005 by "éditions EDDIF (Maroc)" and "Paris-Méditérannée (France)" is a biographical
dictionary of Moroccan writers who have expressed themselves inFrench language . The book has established itself already as a standard reference tool.Background
Salim Jay lived in
Rabat from 1957 to 1973. His father was apoet who wrote inclassical Arabic and was a friend of late kingMohammed V to whom Jay devoted the novel "Portrait du Géniteur en Poète Officiel" (Denoel, 1985). When Salim Jay was fourteen he made his first steps injournalism . He wrote an article forl'Opinion , thenewspaper of thenationalist and royalistIstiqlal Party . In 1973 he heeded warnings and went intoexile inFrance . He would not return for 29 years. He kept contact with his native country through the writings of other Morrocans. Salim Jay has a column in "Qantara", the magazine of the prestigious 'Institut du Monde Arabe ' in ParisBesides articles on the literature of Morocco, Jay has written on French writers like
Michel Tournier ,Henri Thomas andJean Freustié . His own favorite is "101 Maliens nous manquent", 1987, ed. Arcantère.Bibliography
*"Brèves notes cliniques sur le cas Guy des Cars" Barbare, 1979
*"La Semaine où Madame Simone eut cent ans" La Différence, 1979
*"Le Fou de lecture et les quarante romans" Confrontation, 1981
*"Tu seras Nabab, mon fils", (sous le pseudonyme d’Irène Refrain) Rupture, 1982
*"Bernard Frank " Rupture 1982
*"Romans maghrébins" L’Afrique littéraire, 1983
*"Romans du monde noir" L’Afrique Littéraire, 1984
*"Portrait du géniteur en poète officiel" Denoël, 1985
*"Idriss,Michel Tournier , et les autres" La Différence, 1986
*"Cent un Maliens nous manquent" Arcantère, 1987
*"L’Afrique de l’Occident (1887-1987)" L’Afrique littéraire, 1987
*"L’Oiseau vit de sa plume" Belfond, 1989
*"Avez-vous luHenri Thomas ?" Le Félin, 1990
*"Les Écrivains sont dans leur assiette" « Point Virgule », Seuil, 1991
*"Starlette au haras", (sous le pseudonyme d’Alexandra Quadripley) Editions de Septembre, 1992
*"Du côté de Saint-Germain-des-Prés" Jacques Bertoin, 1992
*"PourAngelo Rinaldi " Belles Lettres, 1994
*"Jean Freustié, romancier de la sincérité" Le Rocher, 1998
*"Sagesse du milieu du monde" Paris Méditerranée, 1999
*"Tu ne traverseras pas le détroit" Mille et une nuits, 2001
*"Dictionnaire des écrivains marocains" Paris Méditerranée - Eddif, 2005
*"Embourgeoisement immédiat" ed. La Différence, 2006 (see article: [http://www.maghrebarts.ma/news/051224.html] )External links
Article (in French) by Fouad Laroui "Salim Jay est-il un écrivain marrocain ?" [http://www.yabiladi.com/article-culture-425.html]
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