Mohammed Loakira

Mohammed Loakira was born in Marrakesh in 1945, into a family nourished on melhoun, the sung poetry of the Maghreb. He studied literature in Rabat, joined left-wing movements and practised theatre. He published in Souffles, Intégral, Lamalif and Al Asas, while pursuing an administrative career that led him to the arts directorate of the Ministry of Culture. Coming to narrative prose in the two thousands, he twice won the Grand Atlas, for poetry in 1995 and then for the novel in 2010. He died on 13 December 2023.

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• PoetryL'horizon est d'argileMohammed Loakira · 1971not translated into EnglishLiterature