Youssouf Amine Elalamy

Youssouf Amine Elalamy (born 20 November 1961 in Larache) is a Moroccan writer. He received the prize of best travel account from the British Council International for his book Un Morocain à New York and the Grand Prix Atlas 2001 for his novelLes Clandestins. His novels have been translated into Arabic, English, Spanish, German, Greek, and Dutch. His collection of short stories, Gossip (2004), is the first book entirely written in Darija (Moroccan Arabic). He is also a professor in the English Department at Ibn-Tofail University