Said Yaktine (born 1955) is a Moroccan writer and literary critic.

Early life

He was born in

Casablanca Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a populatio ...

. He obtained a PhD from the Mohammed the Fifth University in

Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ) is the Capital (political), capital city of Morocco and the List of cities in Morocco, country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million. ...

, and has worked as an academic ever since. He has published more than a dozen books on various aspects of

Arabic literature Arabic literature ( / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is ''Adab (Islam), Adab'', which comes from a meaning of etiquett ...

and culture.

Career

He supervises the ''Novels of Time'' series issued by Time Publications in Rabat. He served on the judging panel of the 2011

Arabic Booker Prize The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) (), also known as "the Arabic Booker", is regarded as the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world. Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic creative writing ...

. He won the 2016

Sheikh Zayed Book Award The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is a literary award presented yearly to writers, intellectuals, publishers whose writings and scholarly publications contributed to Arab cultural, literary and social life. The award has been described as “the Arab ...

in the Literary and Art Criticism category for ''Al-Fikr al-Adabi al-‘Arabi'' (Arabic Literary Thought).

Awards and honours

Yaktine won the foremost literary prize in Morocco in 1989 and 1997. He won the Abd al-Hamid Shufan Prize (Jordan) in 1992.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yaktine, Said 1955 births Living people Mohammed V University alumni Writers from Casablanca Moroccan novelists Moroccan male writers Moroccan male novelists