Mohammed Khair-Eddine (; ) (1941 – November 18, 1995) was a Moroccan poet and writer. He was among the most famous Moroccan
Amazigh
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literary figures of the literature
Life
Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine was born in
Tafraout
Tafraout, also Tafraoute (, ) is a town in Tiznit Province, Souss-Massa region, Morocco. Situated in the central part of the Anti-Atlas mountains, a mountain range in Morocco which is part of the Atlas Mountains in the northwest of Africa, the to ...
, a Berber town in the Souss-Massa-Drâa region (Tiznit province), in the south of Morocco, 180 km south of
Agadir
Agadir (, ; ) is a major List of cities in Morocco, city in Morocco, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Sous River, Souss River flows into the ocean, and south of Casabla ...
.
Khair-Eddine died in
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ) is the Capital (political), capital city of Morocco and the List of cities in Morocco, country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million. ...
November 18, 1995.
[Salim Jay, ''Dictionnaire des écrivains marocains'', Eddif, 2005, pp. 217–221.]
Selected works
*''Agadir'' (1967).
*''Résurrection des fleurs sauvages'' (Éditions Stouky, Rabat, 1981).
*''Légende et vie d' Agoun'chich'' (Le Seuil, 1984).
Éditions du Seuil
For the most part his works have been published by
Éditions du Seuil
Éditions du Seuil (), also known as Le Seuil, is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil'' (th ...
:
*''Corps négatif''
*''Histoire d'un Bon Dieu''
*''Soleil arachnide''
*''Moi l'aigre''
*''Le Déterreur''
*''Ce Maroc!''
*''Une odeur de manthèque''
*''Une vie, un rêve, un peuple''
*''Toujours errants''
*''Légende et vie d'Agoun'chich''
*''Résurrection des fleurs sauvages''
External links
*
limag.refer.org
References
Berber poets
Moroccan male poets
1941 births
1995 deaths
Moroccan writers in French
20th-century Moroccan poets
People from Tafraout
Shilha people
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