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Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla is a noted Spanish scholar and translator of Arabic literature. Since 2006, he has taught at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, but he has also taught at the University Abdelmalek Essaadi in Tangier, the Université Saint-Joseph in Lebanon, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha where he worked for more than a decade.
He has written a history of modern Moroccan literature entitled La literatura marroquí contemporánea. He is also the editor of a number of books of literary scholarship and criticism. He is the director of Memorias del Mediterráneo, a series of works of Arabic literature published in Spanish translation by Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo.
He served on the judging panel of the 2012 Arabic Booker Prize.