Driss ben Hamed Charhadi (1937–1986) is the

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of Larbi Layachi, a Moroccan story-teller, some of whose stories have been translated by

Paul Bowles Paul Frederic Bowles (; December 30, 1910November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his ...

from

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. His book, '' A Life Full of Holes'', was tape-recorded and translated by Bowles over the course of several visits to his home by Charhadi, and published in 1964 by

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A second collection of stories, ''Yesterday and Today'', was published by

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in 1985. In 1986 he published a memoir, ''The Jealous Lover''. Neither of these two books list translators, but in a note in the latter, Katherine Harer states that he dictated it to her in English; he was her student in grammar and writing classes at San Francisco Community College.

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Driss ben Hamed Charhadi and Paul Bowles: A Life Full of Holes
at Qantara.de Moroccan storytellers Moroccan novelists 1937 births 1986 deaths {{Morocco-bio-stub