Youssouf Amine Elalamy

Youssouf Amine Elalamy in front of the finishing part of his last novel Nomade (2009), a literary installation, during exhibition in Copenhagen, December 2009

Youssouf Amine Elalamy (born 20 November 1961 in Larache) is a Moroccan writer.^[1]

Career[]

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. In 2020, he was awarded the Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique for his novel C’est beau, la guerre.^[2]

Works[]

• Un Marocain à New York (in French). Eddif. 1998. ISBN 978-9981-09-013-2.
• Les clandestins, Eddif, 2000, 168 pages. ISBN 2-84626-010-9
• Paris, mon bled, Eddif, 2002, 176 pages. ISBN 9981-09-081-6
• Miniatures, Hors Champs, 2004, 120 pages. ISBN 2-914164-05-X
• Oussama mon amour, La Croisée des Chemins, 2011, 187 pages.
• Amour nomade, La Croisée des Chemins, 2013,155 pages.
• C'est beau, la guerre (in French). Au diable vauvert. 2019. ISBN 979-10-307-0306-1.

Awards and honours[]

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.

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External links[]

• Youssouf Amine Elalamy: Life in the Subjunctive, Death in the Sea

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