Ahmed al Madini

Ahmed el-Madini is a scholar, a novelist, a poet, and a translator from Morocco. He was born near Casablanca in 1947. Al-Madini studied in Paris and was awarded a doctoral degree from the Sorbonne. He has published eight short story collections, eight novels, two poetry collections, and five volumes of cultural essays. He also published translations and scholarly studies about the short story, the novel, and narrative in general. In 2003 he was awarded the National Book Award in Morocco.