Rachid O. (born 1970) is a Moroccan writer. He was born in

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 ...

; after studying in Morocco, he went to live in

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. He writes mainly about the equilibrium between the

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world and

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. His work ''Chocolat chaud'', is

autofiction In literary criticism, autofiction is a form of fictionalized autobiography. Autofiction combines two mutually inconsistent narrative forms, namely autobiography and fiction. An author may decide to recount their life in the third person, to mod ...

about a Moroccan man exploring his sexual identity in France.

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* 1995 : ''L'enfant ébloui'', Gallimard * 1996 : ''Plusieurs vies'', Gallimard * 1998 : ''Chocolat chaud'', Gallimard * 2003 : ''Ce qui reste'', Gallimard * 2013 : ''Analphabètes'', Gallimard

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