Abdelkarim Jouaiti (

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: عبد الكريم جويطي) (born 1962) is a Moroccan novelist.

Early life

Born in

Beni Mellal Beni Mellal ( ar, بني ملال}, ber, ⴰⵢⵜ ⵎⵍⵍⴰⵍ, Ayt Mellal) is a city in north-central Morocco. It is the capital of the Béni Mellal-Khénifra Region and has a population of 192,676 (2014 census). It sits at the foot of Jbe ...

, he works in the Moroccan

civil service The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...

and was at one point the Ministry of Culture's regional director in

Tadla-Azilal Tadla-Azilal ( Berber: ''Tadla-Aẓilal'', ) was formerly one of the sixteen regions of Morocco from 1997 to 2015. It was situated in central Morocco. It covered an area of 17,125 km2 and had a population of 1,607,509 (2014 census). The cap ...

Career

He is the author of several novels including: * ''Night of the Sun'' (1992) * ''Celebrations of Death'' (1996) * ''Yellow Morella'' (2002) * ''Platoon of Ruin'' (2007) ''Platoon of Ruin'' was longlisted for the

Arabic Booker Prize The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) ( ar, الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية) is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world. Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic ...

in 2009.

External links

Author's website (in Arabic)

References

People from Beni Mellal Moroccan novelists Moroccan male writers Male novelists 1962 births Living people {{Morocco-bio-stub