Mohamed Leftah (1946 – 20 July 2008) was a Moroccan novelist and literary critic who wrote in French. He wrote ten novels and worked for ''Matin du Sahara'' and ''Temps du Maroc''.
Biography
Leftah was born in 1946 in
Settat
Settat ( ar, سطات, siṭṭāt, ber, ⵥⴻⵟⵟⴰⵜ, ẓeṭṭat) is a city in Morocco between the national capital Rabat and Marrakesh. Settat is located by road south of the centre of Casablanca, roughly an hour's drive. It is the cap ...
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Morocco. He studied in Casablanca, then he entered a school of Public works engineers works, in Paris. He returned to Morocco, he became a computer scientist then a literary journalist at ''
Le Matin du Sahara'' and ''Temps du Maroc''. In 1990, he returned to France and began his novel writing career. In 1992, after the publication of ''Demoiselles de Numidie'' by ''Éditions de l'Aube''.
Salim Jay
Salim Jay (born 30 June 1951) is a Franco- Moroccan novelist, essayist and literary critic living in France. He has written about 20 books, numerous essays and more than thousand newspaper articles.
His "Dictionnaire des Écrivains marocains", pu ...
introduced him to ''Editions de La Différence''. The publishing company published ''Au bonheur des limbes, Ambre ou les métamorphoses de l'amour, L'Enfant de marbre, Une fleur dans la nuit'' suivi de ''Sous le soleil et le clair de lun''e and ''Un martyr de notre temps''. In 2000, he moved from Morocco to Cairo, Egypt.
Death
He died at Sunday July 20 2008 in Cairo at the age of 62.
References
External links
*Biography in ''La Difference'
(retrieved on March 3, 2009)
*Obituary in ''Livres Hebdo'
(retrieved on March 3, 2009)
Moroccan literary critics
Moroccan novelists
Moroccan male writers
Moroccan male novelists
Moroccan writers in French
1946 births
2008 deaths
People from Settat
Moroccan emigrants to Egypt
20th-century novelists
20th-century male writers
20th-century Moroccan writers
21st-century Moroccan writers
Moroccan LGBT writers
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