Mohammed Berrada (), also transliterated Muhammad Baradah (born 1938 in

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) is a Moroccan novelist, literary critic and translator writing in

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. He is considered one of

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's most important modern authors.Salim Jay, "Dictionnaire des écrivains marocains", Eddif, 2005, p. 91

Early life

Berrada studied literature in France.''Smásögur heimsins: Afríka'', ed. by Rúnar Helgi Vignisson, Jón Karl Helgason and Kristín Guðrún Jónsdóttir (Reykjavík: Bjartur, 2019), p. 105. From 1976 to 1983, Berrada was the president of Morocco's writers union. He has for some decades taught Arabic literature at the Faculté des lettres of the Mohammed V University in

. He is a member of the advisory board of the Moroccan literary magazine ''Prologue''.

Career

Since July 26th 1977, Berrada has been married to Leila Shahid, ambassador of the

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to the

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References

Books

*''Al-Daw al-harīb'' (fleeting light) (1993) : The relation between a painter and two women of different generations, the mother and the daughter. Translated into English as ''Fugitive Light'' (2002) by Issa J. Boullata. *''Dirāsāt fī al-qiṣṣah al-ʻArabiyah : Waqāʼiʻ nadwat Miknās'' (Bayrūt : Muʼassasat al-Abḥāth al-ʻArabiyah, 1986.) *''Le théâtre au Maroc : tradition, expérimentation et perspectives'' (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 1998) . *''L'ubat al-Nisyan'' (the game of forgetting) (Rabat: Dar al-Aman, 1986.): the story of an intellectual about his life, from his childhood to adulthood in Morocco in the middle of the 20th century. Translated into English as ''The Game of Forgetting'' (1996) by Issa J. Boullata. *''Like a summer that will not come back'' (Sinbad, 2001) Memories of the summer of 1956 when the author studied in

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. *''Imraʼat al-nisyān : riwāyah'' (Casablanca: Nashr al-Fanak, 2001.) *''Faḍāʼāt riwāʼīyah'' (Rabat: Wizārat al-Thaqāfah, 2003.) *''Siyāqāt thaqāfīyah : mawāqif, mudākhalāt, marāfi'' (Rabat: Wizārat al-Thaqāfah, 2003.)

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