- Ahmed Bouzfour
Ahmed Bouzfour ( _ar. أحمد بوزفور) is a modern Moroccan
author . He is generally considered as one of the best of Moroccannovellist s.Biography
Born in the early 1940s near to
Taza , He received primary education and learntQur'an in a Quranic school. Then he studied at theUniversity of Al Qaraouiyine ( _ar. القرويين) inFès , where he completed hishigh school studies and where he obtained hisbaccalauréat in 1966. After that, he was arrested and incarcerated during three months for his political activism.He continued his studies in the "Faculty of
Humanities andHuman Science " inMohammed V University , inRabat , where he obtained a licence (Academic degree) ofArabic literature , then, in 1972, a master in modernMoroccan literature .His first
novella , "Yas'alounaka âni al-qatl" (يسألونك عن القتل) was published in 1971 inAl-Alam (العلم), a Moroccan newspaper belonging to theIstiqlal Party .Works
* "Ta'abbata chiârane" (تأبط شعرا)
* Three collections ofnovella s :
**"An-nadarou fi al-wajhi al-âaziz" (النظر في الوجه العزيز) publié en 1983.
**"Al-Ghabir Al-Dhahir" (الغابر الظاهر) en 1987.
**"Sayad al-Naâm" (صياد النعام) en 1993.
* "Diwane as-sindibad" (ديوان السندباد)
* "Az-zarafa al-mouchtaîla" (الزرافة المشتعلة): Points of view about Moroccan modernstorie s.References
"Much of the content of this article comes from [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Bouzfour the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article] , accessed
June 11 2007 ."See also
Internal links
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Short story
*Moroccan literature
*Arabic literature External links
* (Arabic) [http://www.geocities.com/hhilmy2 Author's personal website, which contained his biography and some documents]
* [http://www.maghrebarts.ma/news/040121.html Press article talking about his refusal to the Moroccan "Book's prize"]
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