Author · Morocco
Driss Chraïbi
Died in 2007
Driss Chraïbi was born in El Jadida, then Mazagan, on 15 July 1926, the son of a well-off merchant of Fassi origin, and grew up in Casablanca, where he attended the Koranic school and then the Lycée Lyautey. Having come to Paris to study chemistry, he became an engineer, then abandoned the sciences and lived by various trades before turning to literature and journalism. He died in Valence, in the Drôme, on 1 April 2007, and was buried in Casablanca beside his father, as he had wished.
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- NovelThe Simple PastLe Passé simpleDriss Chraïbi · 1954Literature