Abdelmajid Benjelloun
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Abdelmajid Benjelloun (1919–1981) was a novelist, journalist and ambassador from Morocco.
Early life[]
He was born in Casablanca in 1919. His parents emigrated to England (Manchester) when he was only one year old. He returned to Morocco when he was ten. His auto-biographical novel Fi at-Tufula (In Childhood), published in 1957, was one of the first Moroccan novels in Arabic.
Bibliography[]
Poetry and novels
- Fi at-Tufula (In Childhood), auto-biographical novel (1957)
On Abdelmajid Benjelloun:
- Simon Gikandi, The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature, p. 192
- Rosa María Ruiz Moreno, "Abd al-Mayid ben Yellun (1915-1981): un pionero de la narrativa marroquí", in: Pérez Beltrán, Carmelo y Ruiz Almodóvar, Caridad (eds), El Magreb : coordenadas socioculturales, 1996, ISBN 84-8144-071-X, pags. 487-504
External links[]
- Literatura Marroqui Contemporanea (in Spanish) under 'Benyellun' [1]
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