Mahi Binebine

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Mahi Binebine (born in Marrakech in 1959 ) is a Moroccan painter, sculptor and Francophone writer.

Life

Mahi Binebine's father died early, and his mother supported the large family. His brother Aziz was one of the coup plotters against King Hassan II in 1971 and was imprisoned in Tazmamart prison for eighteen years . He studied mathematics and went to Paris in 1980 to continue his studies at the Pierre and Marie Curie University . From 1985 he worked in France as a mathematics teacher for eight years. Between 1994 and 1999 he lived in New York City . Since 2002 he has been living in Marrakech again.

Between 2001 and 2004 he worked with the Spanish painter Miguel Galanda . As a painter and sculptor, Binebine participated in various exhibitions. The Guggenheim Museum in New York bought pictures of him. In 2009 he was represented at the Venice Biennale .

Binebine published several novels in French. In 2010 he received the Prix ​​du Roman arabe for Les Étoiles de Sidi Moumen , the novel was filmed in 2012 by Nabil Ayouch under the title Les Chevaux de Dieu . The English translation of the novel was shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award in 2015 .

Works (selection)

  • Le fou du Roi . Stock, 2017 ISBN 223408265X
    • The jester . Translation of Regina Keil-Sagawe. Basel: Lenos, 2018
  • Le Seigneur vous le rendra . Ed. Flammarion, 2013 ISBN 2213670846
    • Heaven gives, heaven takes: a novel from Morocco . Translation of Hilde Fieguth. Basel: Lenos, 2016
  • Les étoiles de Sidi Moumen . Ed. Flammarion, 2010 ISBN 2081236362
    • The Angels of Sidi Moumen: Roman from Morocco . Translation of Regula Renschler . Basel: Lenos, 2011
  • Terre d'ombres brulée . Ed. Fayard, ISBN 2213617627
  • Pollen . Ed. Fayard, 2001 ISBN 2213609969
  • Le griot de Marrakech . Ed. L'Aube, ISBN 275260212X
  • Cannibales . Ed. Fayard, 1999, ISBN 2213604444
    • Cannibals: Roman . Translation by Patricia A. Hladschik. Innsbruck: Haymon, 2003 (also under the title Willkommen im Paradies: Roman aus Morocco , 2017)
  • L'ombre du poète . Ed. Stock, 1997 ISBN 2234046688
  • Les funérailles du lait . Ed. Stock, 1994 ISBN 9954167412
    • Mamaya's last trip: novel . Translation by Eliane Hagedorn. Munich: Droemer Knaur, 1997
  • Le sommeil de l'esclave . Ed. Stock, 1992 ISBN 2234024889
    • The slave's sleep: novel . Translation by Barbara Reitz. Munich: Droemer Knaur, 1994

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mamaya's last journey , brief description of the autobiographical novel in afrikaroman
  2. ↑ About the brother see also the novel Tahar Ben Jelloun : The Silence of Light: Novel . Translation by Christiane Kayser. Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2001 ( Cette aveuglante absence de lumière , Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2001)
personal data
SURNAME Binebine, Mahi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moroccan painter, sculptor and Francophone writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Marrakech