- Abdallah Zrika
Abdallah Zrika ( _ar. عبد الله زريقة) (born 1953 in
Casablanca ) is one of the most famous poets ofMorocco . His poetry is free, based on spoken language and unrivalled in contemporaryArabic literature in its spontaneity .Zrika grew up in the poor neighbourhood Ben Msik. At the age of twelve he wrote his first poems. In 1977 he published "Dance of the head and the rose". For the Moroccan youth, he represents the ideal of poetry, of freedom of living and expressing yourself. Because of censorship Zrika spent two years in jail. Six of his poems were deemed morally dangerous. In 1978 he got his degree in
sociology . Besides a poet Abdallah Rzika is also aplaywright .Works translated from Arabic into French
* "Rires de l’arbre à palabre, poésie", L’Harmattan, Paris, 1982.
* "Bougies noires", La Différence, Paris, 1998.
* "Petites proses", L’Escampette, Bordeaux, 1998.
* "Échelles de la métaphysique", L’Escampette, Bordeaux, 2000.
* "La colombe du texte", CIPM, Spectres Familiers, Marseille, 2003.Novels in Arabic
* "المراه مع فرسين" ("The woman with the two horses")
* "مقبره السعاده" ("Graveyard of Happiness")(published by Le Fennec in Casablanca)
His poems have also been published in magazins like: "Esprit", "Autrement", "Refuge", "Le croquant", "Petite", and "RMM".
He worked on plays with Louis Sclavis, Luigi Cinqui, writing "He is like the theater".
External links
*University of Kwazulu-Natal, Centre for creative arts, African Poetry [http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cca/PoetryAfrica2003bios6.html]
*cipM Centre international de poésie Marseille, with a reading of "drops of black candles" by the author (in Arabic) [http://www.cipmarseille.com/auteur_fiche.php?id=6]
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