Rachida Lamrabet
Rachida Lamrabet (born 1970 in Sidi Boujedain, Driouch Province , Morocco ) is a Belgian writer of Moroccan origin.
Life
Rachida Lamrabet came to Belgium from northern Morocco with her parents looking for work when she was two. She grew up in the Borgerhout district of Antwerp . Lamrabet studied law and works as a lawyer at the Interfederaal Centrum voor gelijke kansen en bestrijding van discriminatie en racisme (Center for Equal Opportunities and Combating Racism) in Brussels .
Her first novel Vrouwland was published in 2007 and received a debut award. In 2008 she was awarded the BNG Nieuwe Literatuurprijs for the volume with stories Een kind van God .
Works
- Mercedes 207 . Narrative. In: Kif Kif. Nieuwe stemmen uit Vlaanderen . Antwerp: Manteau, 2006
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Vrouwland . Antwerp: Manteau, 2007 (again in: Een kind van God )
- Frauenland: Roman . From the Dutch by Heike Baryga . Munich: Luchterhand, 2010
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A kind of God . Antwerp: Manteau, 2008 (also under the title De slaper en Andere verhalen )
- About love and hate: stories . From the Dutch by Heike Baryga . Munich: btb, 2012
- De man who was never buried wild . Antwerp: De Bezige Bij, 2011
- Rachida Lamrabet: Literature helps when you are trying to form an identity , in: The Guardian , February 2, 2010
literature
- Jonathan Bastable, Hannah McGill (Eds.): The 21st century novel: notes from the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference . Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2014
Web links
- Literature by and about Rachida Lamrabet in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Rachida Lamrabet in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Rachida Lamrabet , at Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL)
- Rachida Lamrabet , at the Random House publishing group , 2009
- Rachida Lamrabet , at the Dutch Foundation for Literature
No entry on Perlentaucher , hence the reviews here:
- Elisabeth Knoblauch: There you are the loser , review, in: Die Zeit , February 2, 2010
- Volkmar Mühleis: End of a crossing , review, at: Deutschlandradio Kultur , August 4, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lamrabet, Rachida |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morocco |