Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla is a noted Spanish scholar and translator of Arabic literature. Since 2006, he has taught at the Autonomous University of Madrid, but he has also collaborated and taught at the

Abdelmalek Essaâdi University Abdelmalek Essaâdi University ( ar, جامعة عبدالمالك السعدي) is a Moroccan public university created in 1989. It is considered to be the main university in the North of the Morocco. This university is made up of 15 institutions, ...

in Tangier, the

Saint Joseph University Saint Joseph University of Beirut ( French: ''Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth'', abbreviated to and commonly known as "USJ") is a private Catholic research university located in Beirut, Lebanon, which was founded in 1875 by French Jesuit mis ...

in Lebanon, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Castilla–La Mancha where he worked for more than a decade. He has written a history of modern Moroccan literature entitled ''La literatura marroquí contemporánea''. He is also the editor of a number of books of literary scholarship and criticism. He is the director of ''Memorias del Mediterráneo'', a series of works of Arabic literature published in Spanish translation by Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo. He served on the judging panel of the 2012 Arabic Booker Prize.

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