Mohamed Choukri

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Mohamed Choukri ( Central Atlas Tamazight ⵎⵓⵃⵎⵎⴷ ⵛⵉⴽⵔⵉ Muḥemmed Cikri , Arabic محمد شكري, DMG Muḥammad Šukrī ; * July 15, 1935 in Beni Chiker , then Spanish Morocco ; † November 15, 2003 in Rabat , Morocco ) was a Moroccan writer .

Life

Choukri came from a rural Berber family in the Rif and migrated as a teenager to the northern Moroccan city of Tangier , where he initially made his way as a petty criminal. In 1956 he was arrested during a political demonstration and learned to read and write while in prison in Tangier. A fellow prisoner drew his attention to a lyceum in Larache , which Choukri attended after his release.

For a while, Choukri was an Arabic teacher at a high school in Tangier. He also worked as a literary critic for the press and radio (Radio Medi1 in Tanger). His friendship with Paul Bowles and other writers ( Jean Genet , Tennessee Williams ) in Tangier led to his discovery as a writer. Bowles he dictated his autobiography al-Hubz al-Hafi (The Bare Bread) in Spanish, which appeared first in English and later in French (translated by Tahar Ben Jelloun ) and in Arabic. The book has now been translated into forty languages.

Because of its relentless realism and depictions of homosexuality, the Arabic work, first self-published in Morocco in 1982, was banned the following year. It was only allowed to appear again in 2000.

Bare bread is now one of the most important texts in modern Arabic literature. Choukri continued it in al-Shuttar - Time of Failures .

Works

  • al-Hubz al-Hafi (German: Das nackte Brot , 1986 - The Other Library , Volume 23).
  • al-Shuttar, 1992 (German: Zeit der Fehler , 1994).

literature

  • Barbara Sigge: Deprivation and Struggle for Life. The autobiography of the Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri . Schwarz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-87997-264-7 (= Islamic Studies , Volume 213).

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personal data
SURNAME Choukri, Mohamed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sukr¯i, Mu.hammad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moroccan writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Beni Chiker , Morocco
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 2003
Place of death Rabat , Morocco