Nadia Chafik (born 02 01 1962 in
Casablanca
Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...
) is a
Moroccan novelist.
Biography
Nadia Chafik was born in Casablanca in 1962, and grew up in
Rabat
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. She is from the Ait Sadden tribe, a
Middle Atlas Berber
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Ethnic group
* Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa
* Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages
Places
* Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile
People with the surname
* Ady Berber (1913–196 ...
tribe.
Chafik studied at
Montreal University
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(Master & Ph.D) and she taught (as "Chargée de cours") in the same university during two years. Her principal academic works are: ''"Être romancière au Maghreb"'' (1988) and ''Une autre lecture du Maghreb à travers l'art scriptural et pictural français du 19e siècle'' (1998).
After teaching also at Ibn Tofaïl University of
Kénitra, Nadia Chafik follows her career at
Mohammed V University of
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...
where she teaches
Literature and organizes some cultural activities like: ''"Ateliers d'écriture"'', or ''"Rencontres avec les auteurs"''.
She published short stories and three novels. ''Nos jours aveugles'' (''Our blind days'') is her first collection of short stories. The last one is: ''Tête de poivre'' (April, 2012) for which she was nominated for the Prix Grand Atlas 2012 of
French Embassy. A critic of French Institute in Morocco writes about this book: " autant de fragments de vie qui mettent à l'honneur la poésie de l'existence".
Selected works
Books
*''L'atelier d'écriture. Un Laboratoire à large spectre didactique'', academic work, 2013
*''Tête de poivre'', short stories, 2012
*''Nos jours aveugles, '', short stories, 2005
*
*''Le secret des djinns'', novel, 1998 - A strange man story.
*''Filles du vent'', novel, 1995 - Madness and misfortune's single mother
Collective books
*''37 printemps'', ''Écoute retomber le silence'' (extract), poetry, in ''Mots de neige, de sable et d'Océan'', 2008
*''Clair-Obscur'', in ''Regards d'enfant'', 2003
*'' Ce pays, ne l'as-tu pas rêve ?'', in ''Perles de l'Atlantique. Les Carnets marocains'', short text, 2001
*''Le Tatouage bleu'', in ''Des Nouvelles du Maroc'', 1999
*''Écoute retomber le silence'' (extract), poetry, in ''Sources - Revue de la Maison de la Poésie, Namur'' n°18, 1997
*''Entre chiens et loups'', in '' Anthologie de la nouvelle maghrébine'', 1996
*''Bribes'', in ''Liberté'' n°182, Montréal-Canada, 1989
References
External links
* "Au-delà de la condition des femmes : les romans de Nadia Chafik", by Mana Derakhshani, Saint Mary’s Colleg
p. 8
* Radio Interview, by Patrice Martin, Médi
* Phot
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1962 births
Living people
Berber writers
Academic staff of Mohammed V University
Moroccan women writers
Moroccan writers in French
People from Casablanca
Université de Montréal alumni