Fouad Laroui (born 12 August 1958) is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in

Oujda Oujda ( ar, وجدة; ber, ⵡⵓⵊⴷⴰ, Wujda) is a major Moroccan city in its northeast near the border with Algeria. Oujda is the capital city of the Oriental region of northeastern Morocco and has a population of about 558,000 people. It ...

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. After his studies at the

Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca) Lycée Lyautey is a French institution of secondary education located in Casablanca, Morocco.

, he joined the prestigious

École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

(Paris, France), where he studied

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. After working shortly for the

Office Cherifien des Phosphates The OCP Group (OCP S.A.) (formerly Office Chérifien des Phosphates) is a Moroccan state-owned phosphate rock miner, phosphoric acid manufacturer and fertilizer producer. Founded in 1920, the company has grown to become the world's largest pr ...

company in

Khouribga Khouribga ( ber, ⵅⵯⵔⵉⴱⴳⴰ, xʷribga; ar, خريبڭة, ḵurībga, ) is the capital of Khouribga Province in the Béni Mellal-Khénifra region, Morocco. With a population of 196,196 (2014 census), Khouribga owes its growth to the pho ...

(Morocco), he moved to the

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where he spent several years in

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and

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. Later he obtained a

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economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics anal ...

and moved to

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

where he started his career as a writer. He has published about twenty books between novels, collections of short stories and essays and two collections of poetry in Dutch. He has won several literary prizes, amongst which the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, the Prix Jean-Giono and the Grande Médaille de la littérature de l'Académie française. He is also active as a literary chronicler for the weekly magazine ''

Jeune Afrique ''Jeune Afrique'' (English: ''Young Africa'') is a French-language pan-African weekly news magazine, founded in 1960 in Tunis and subsequently published in Paris. It is the most widely read pan-African magazine. It is also a book publisher, under ...

'' and ''Economia magazine'', and the French-Moroccan radio Médi1.

Awards and honours

* 1997: Prix Découverte Albert-Camus pour son ouvrage Les Dents du topographe * 1998: Prix Méditerranée des lycéens pour son ouvrage De quel amour blessé * 1998: Prix BEUR FM Méditerranée pour son ouvrage Méfiez-vous des parachutistes * 2002: Aux Pays-Bas le Prix E. du Perron pour son œuvre * 2004: Grand Prix SGDL de la nouvelle pour son ouvrage Tu n'as rien compris à Hassan II * 2005: Prix Grand Atlas pour son ouvrage La Meilleure Façon d'attraper les choses * 2013 : Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle for L'Étrange Affaire du pantalon de Dassoukine18. * 2014 : Grande Médaille de la francophonie de l'Académie française. * 2014 : Grand prix Jean-Giono pour Les Tribulations du dernier Sijilmassi * 2018: Prix littéraire des lycéens du Liban pour son ouvrage Ce vain combat que tu livre au monde17

Works

* ''Les Dents du topographe'' (Julliard, 1996) - A chronicle of a young person in Morocco, an account which marks the refusal of the established order and a feeling of detachment for his homeland. Price Discovered Albert-Camus. * ''De quel amour blessé'' (Julliard, 1998) - The story of an impossible love affair between a Maghrebi living in Paris and a Jewish girl. Winner of Mediterranean prize of Colleges, Radio-Beur FM Prize . * ''Méfiez-vous des parachutistes'' (Julliard, 1999)- A comic portrait of Moroccan society told through the lives of two characters. * ''Le Maboul'' (Julliard, 2000) - A collection of satirical short stories about Moroccan society. * ''La fin tragique de Philomène Tralala'' (Julliard, 2003) * ''Tu n'as rien compris à Hassan II'' (Julliard, 2004) - A collection of short stories. * ''De l’islamisme. Une réfutation personnelle du totalitarisme religieux'' (Robert Laffont editions, October 2006) * ''L'Oued et le Consul '' (Julliard 2006) : collection of short stories. * ''Le jour où Malika ne s'est pas mariée'' (Julliard 2009) : novel * ''Une année chez les Français'' (Julliard 2010): Novel, listed for the Prix Goncourt 2010. * ''Democracy and Islam in the Magreb an Implications for Europe'', in: Zeyno Baran (Ed.), The Other Muslims: Moderate and Secular, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 * ''La Vieille Dame du riad'' (Julliard, 2011) : novel * ''L'Étrange Affaire du pantalon de Dassoukine'' (Julliard, 2012) : short stories 'The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers'' (Deep Vellum, 2016)* "Des Bédouins dans le polder" (Le Fennec, 2010) - Moroccans in Holland: anecdotes, things seen, conversations overheard in the streets of Amsterdam and other Dutch towns. * ''Des Bédouins dans le polder''. Histoires tragi-comiques de l’émigration (Zellige, 2010). * ''Une année chez les Français'' (Julliard, 2010) : roman qui a été retenu parmi la première sélection du prix Goncourt et a obtenu le Prix de l'Algue d'or (Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, France en 2011) 20108. * ''Le Drame linguistique marocain'' (Zellige ; Le Fennec, 2011) : non-fiction * ''La Vieille Dame du riad'' (Julliard, 2011) : novel * ''Le jour où j'ai déjeuné avec le Diable'' (Zellige, 2011) : chronicles * ''L'Étrange Affaire du pantalon de Dassoukine'' (Julliard, 2012) : short stories * ''Du bon usage des djinns'' (Zellige, 2014) : chronicles * ''Les Tribulations du dernier Sijilmassi'' (Julliard, 2014) : novel * ''Une lecture personnelle d'Averroès'' (Éditions universitaires d'Avignon, 2014) : non-fiction * ''D’un pays sans frontières'' (Zellige, 2015) : non-fiction * ''L’Oued et le Consul'' (Flammarion, 2015) : short stories * ''Ce vain combat que tu livres au monde'' (Julliard, 2016) : novel. Prix littéraire des lycéens du Liban 201811 * ''L’insoumise de la Porte de Flandre'' (Julliard, 2017) : novel * ''Dieu, les mathématiques, la folie'' (Robert Laffont, 2018) : non-fiction * ''Plaidoyer pour les Arabes. Vers un récit universel'' (Mialet Barrault, 2021) : non-fiction

References

* ''Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article, accessed January 17, 2007.''

External links

''Fouad Laroui''
- Bibliomonde.com
''Fouad Laroui: Un regard amusé et lucide''
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