Abdelfattah Kilito ( ar, عبد الفتاح كيليطو; born 10 April 1945, in
Rabat) is a Moroccan writer. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also written articles for magazines such as ''Poétique'' and ''
Studia Islamica
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''. Some of the awards Kilito has won are the Great Moroccan Award (1989), the Atlas Award (1996), the
French Academy
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Award (le prix du Rayonnement de la langue française) (1996) and Sultan Al Owais Prize for Criticism and Literature Studies (2006).
Life
Kilito was born in 1945 in
Rabat, Morocco. He was raised in the
medina
Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the second-holiest city in Islam, and the capital of the ...
of the old city of Rabat. Kilito learned French from the age of six. He also studied German, and was trained as a scholar of
classical Arabic literature in the Faculté des Lettres at the
Mohammed V University
Mohammed V University (, french: Université Mohammed-V de Rabat), in Rabat, Morocco, was founded in 1957 under a royal decree ( Dahir). It is the first modern university in Morocco after the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez.
History
The uni ...
. Kilito is Professor of Arts at Mohammed V University in Rabat.
Bibliography
By Kilito
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*''Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language'', translated by Waïl S. Hassan, 2008,
*''Je parle toutes les langues, mais en arabe'', 2013,
*''The Clash of Images'', 1995 (translated by
Robyn Creswell
Robyn Creswell is an American critic, scholar and translator.
Life
He graduated from Brown University in 1999 and gained a doctorate in comparative literature from New York University in 2011. In addition to teaching comparative literature at ...
, 2010),
On Kilito
*Abdelhaq Anoun, ''Abdelfattah Kilito : les origines culturelles d'un roman maghrébin'', Harmattan, Collection Critiques Littéraires, 2004,
References
External links
Penatlas entry
1945 births
Living people
Moroccan writers
Writers from Rabat
Mohammed V University alumni
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