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Mohammed Khair-Eddine ( zgh, ⵎⵓⵃⵎⵎⴰⴷ ⵅⴰⵢⵔ ⴷⴷⵉⵏ; ar, محمد خير الدين) (1941 – November 18, 1995) was a Moroccan poet and writer. He was among the most famous Moroccan Berber literary figures of the 20th century.
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Mohammed Khair-Eddine ( zgh, ⵎⵓⵃⵎⵎⴰⴷ ⵅⴰⵢⵔ ⴷⴷⵉⵏ; ar, محمد خير الدين) (1941 – November 18, 1995) was a Moroccan poet and writer. He was among the most famous Moroccan Berber literary figures of the 20th century.
Life
Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine was born inTafraout
Tafraout, also Tafraoute ( ar, تافراوت, Shilha ber, ⵜⴰⴼⵔⴰⵡⵜ) is a town in Tiznit Province, Souss-Massa region, Morocco, in the central part of the Anti-Atlas mountains. It had a population of 4,931 at the 2004 census.
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, a Berber town in the Souss-Massa-Drâa region (Tiznit province), in the south of Morocco, 180 km south of Agadir
Agadir ( ar, أݣادير, ʾagādīr; shi, ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ) is a major city in Morocco, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Souss River flows into the ocean, and south ...
.
As a young writer, he joined the circle of writers known as the ''Amitiés littéraires et artistiques'' in Casablanca. In 1964 Khair-Eddir founded the "Poésie Toute" movement. In 1965 he was exiled to France where he spent years working in factories. In 1967 he started publishing again, writing for "Lettres nouvelles" and "Présence africaine
''Présence Africaine'' is a pan-African quarterly cultural, political, and literary magazine, published in Paris, France, and founded by Alioune Diop in 1947. In 1949, ''Présence Africaine'' expanded to include a publishing house and a bookstore ...
". Mohammed Khair-Eddine returned to Morocco in 1979.
Khair-Eddine died in Rabat November 18, 1995.Salim Jay, ''Dictionnaire des écrivains marocains'', Eddif, 2005, pp. 217–221.
Selected works
*''Agadir'' (1967): The author is very much taken by the "séisme" of 1960, he moves toAgadir
Agadir ( ar, أݣادير, ʾagādīr; shi, ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ) is a major city in Morocco, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Souss River flows into the ocean, and south ...
in 1961 and stays there until 1963.
*''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 byÉditions 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' ...
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*''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