Ahmed Sefrioui

Ahmed Sefrioui was born in Fez in 1915 into a family of Berber origin and grew up in the medina. Trained at the Koranic school, then at the French school, he was a journalist at L'Action du peuple, then curator of the Batha museum in Fez, before working in Rabat in the tourism administration. He is counted among the founders of Moroccan literature in French, and the Encyclopædia Universalis reports that he was nicknamed the “Moroccan Loti”. He died in Rabat on 25 February 2004.

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• Short storiesLe Chapelet d'ambreAhmed Sefrioui · 1949not translated into EnglishLiterature