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"English translation (c) 2017 by matthew stefan reeck" -- Verso title page.

About the author

ABDELKÉBIR KHATIBI (1938 - 2009) is considered one of the most prominent writers of postcolonial Francophone literature from North Africa. His list of works includes thirty-six separate titles. During his lifetime he won literary and intellectual prizes in Morocco and France. After earning his PhD in sociology at the Sorbonne, he returned to live and work in Morocco. A writer of great breadth and challenging variety, Khatibi is known for works of literary and social criticism such as Maghreb pluriel, as well as for experimental fiction in titles such as Amour bilingue, a work of anti-autobiography in La mémoire tatouée, and poetry, including this volume and Aimance. As a translator, MATT REECK has published Mirages of the Mind (Vintage India, New Directions), selected as one of the 25 best translations of 2016 by Three Percent and Bombay Stories (Random House India, Vintage UK/US), chosen by the New York Times as a 2014 editor's pick. He has won grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the NEA, and the PEN/Heim Fund. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Summary

The first English translation of a seminal North African poem

Product details

• Authors: Abdelkeir Khatibi, Abdelkéir Khatibi, Abdelkeir Reeck Khatibi, Matt Reeck
• Assisted by: Matt Reeck (Translation)
• Publisher: University press new england
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2017
• EAN: 9780819577528
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-7752-8
• No. of pages: 72
• Series: Wesleyan Poetry; Wesleyan Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous