Biography mohamed choukri english

Mohamed Choukri (Arabic: محمد شكري, Amazigh: ⵎⵓⵃⴰⵎⵎⴻⴷ ⵛⵓⴽⵔⵉ) (15 July 1935 – 15 November 2003) was a.
His father had been a soldier in the Spanish army.
Mohamed Choukri (1935-2003) is one of the most important figures of Moroccan literature.

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Mohamed Choukri

الخبز الحافي
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3.57 avg rating — 10,323 ratings — published 1973 — 66 editions

الشطار
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3.56 avg rating — 1,589 ratings — published 1992 — 31 editions

وجوه
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3.18 avg rating — 503 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions

الخيمة
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2.83 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions

السوق الداخلي
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3.39 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions

مجنون الورد
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3.30 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions

Jean Genet in Tangier
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3.61 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1973 — 7 editions

غواية الشحرور الأبيض
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3.95 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2006

بول بولز وعزلة طنجة
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3.51 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions

In Tangier

3.75 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions

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The first time I met Mohamed Choukri was when we ran into each other late in the summer of 1972 on the rue Pasteur in Tangier… He was holding a large dog by the leash and walking with spontaneity through a crowd. I had just read a text by him in the magazine Literatures and heard news filled with exaggerations about his personal life. We promised each other to meet in the evening; what drew my attention in the course of our conversations, which lasted late into that night, was that Choukri was the farthest thing from the image that his admirers gave of him; he was self-possessed and dignified in his dialogue, rational in his arguments, bold in his criticism of what he read. He wasn’t closed off about the “legend” of his past, rather he was open-eyed to his present and was living as close as possible to the complex and fleeting reality in its fluctuations and I liked that he didn’t cancel out his identity by talking and hiding behind literary expression to which many of the intellectuals resorted.

During that meeting, the bonds of friendshi

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Mohamed Choukri

Moroccan author (1935–2003)

Mohamed Choukri
Native name	محمد شكري
Born	(1935-07-15)15 July 1935 Ayt Chiker, Nador, Morocco
Died	15 November 2003(2003-11-15) (aged 68) Rabat, Morocco
Resting place	Marshan cemetery
Occupation	Novelist, autobiographer
Literary movement	Moroccan literature
Notable works	For Bread Alone

Mohamed Choukri (Arabic: محمد شكري, Amazigh: ⵎⵓⵃⴰⵎⵎⴻⴷ ⵛⵓⴽⵔⵉ) (15 July 1935 – 15 November 2003) was a Moroccan author and novelist who is best known for his internationally acclaimed autobiography For Bread Alone (al-Khubz al-Hafi), which was described by the American playwright Tennessee Williams as "a true document of human desperation, shattering in its impact".

Choukri was born in 1935 in Ayt Chiker (Ayt Chiker, hence his adopted family name: Choukri / Chikri), a small village in the Rif mountains in the Nador province, Morocco. He was raised in a very poor family. He ran away from his tyrannical father and became a homeless child living in the poor neighbourhoods of