Abdellatif Laabi Explained

Abdellatif Laabi
عبد اللطيف اللعبي
Birth Place:Fes, Morocco
Occupation:Writer

Abdellatif Laâbi (born 1942) is a Moroccan poet, journalist, novelist, playwright, translator and political activist.[1]

Laâbi, then teaching French, founded with other poets the artistic journal Souffles, an important literary review in 1966. It was considered as a meeting point of some poets who felt the emergency of a poetic stand and revival, but which, very quickly, crystallized all Moroccan creative energies: painters, film-makers, men of theatre, researchers and thinkers. It was banned in 1972, but throughout its short life, it opened up to cultures from other countries of the Maghreb and those of the Third World.

Abdellatif Laâbi was imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to ten years in prison for "crimes of opinion" (for his political beliefs and his writings) and served a sentence from 1972 to 1980. He was, in 1985, forced into exile in France.[2] The political beliefs that were judged criminal are reflected in the following comment, for example: "Everything which the Arab reality offers that is generous, open and creative is crushed by regimes whose only anxiety is to perpetuate their own power and self-serving interest. And what is often worse is to see that the West remains insensitive to the daily tragedy while at the same time accommodating, not to say supporting, the ruling classes who strangle the free will and aspirations of their people."

Awards and honors

Works

Each year for a first edition links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article for poetry or "[year] in literature" article for other works:

Poetry

Novels

Drama

Children's books

Other works

Translations from Arabic

Adaptations (drama) and other publications

Autobiography

Works available in English

Footnotes

  1. Abdellatif Laâbi, Victor W. Reinking, Anne O. George, The world's embrace: selected poems, Foreword by Ammiel Accalay, p. X, XI
  2. Paul Clammer, Morocco, Lonely Planet, 2009, p.60
  3. Web site: 2021-12-30. L'écrivain marocain Abdellatif Laâbi reçoit le Prix Robert Ganzo de Poésie. 2021-12-30. Etonnants Voyageurs. fr.
  4. Web site: The Fonlon-Nichols Award -. live. 2021-12-30. African Literature Association. 25 July 2014 . en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20150204233735/http://africanlit.org/the-fonlon-nichols-award/ . 2015-02-04 .
  5. News: Prix de poésie Alain Bosquet décerné à Abdellatif Laâbi. 2021-12-30. Le Matin. fr.
  6. Web site: Edicioni XII i Festivalit Ndërkombëtar të Poezisë "Ditët e Naimit". 2021-12-30. sq.
  7. 2009. A Prize to Celebrate: Abdellatif Laabi Wins 2009 Goncourt Literary Prize for Poetry Al Jadid. Al Jadid. 15. 2021-12-30.
  8. News: Prix international de littérature francophone "Benjamin Fondane" : Abdellatif Laâbi primé. 2021-12-30. Libération. fr.
  9. Web site: Abdellatif LAÂBI. live. 2021-12-30. Académie Française. https://web.archive.org/web/20121012232434/http://www.academie-francaise.fr:80/abdellatif-laabi . 2012-10-12 .
  10. Web site: Abdellatif Laâbi et Marion Muller- Colard, lauréats 2015. live. 2021-12-30. Écritures & Spiritualités. fr. https://web.archive.org/web/20211230165742/https://ecrituresetspiritualites.fr/une-belle-ceremonie-pour-la-remise-du-prix-ecritures-spiritualites/ . 2021-12-30 .
  11. Web site: منح جائزة محمود درويش للثقافة والإبداع لتشومسكي وعبد اللطيف اللعبي وزكريا محمد. 2021-12-30. Al Jazeera. ar.
  12. News: 2021-02-10. Abdellatif Laâbi décroche le grand prix de poésie de la Ville de Lyon. 2021-12-30. Al Bayane. fr.
  13. Web site: Abdellatif Laâbi. www.poetrytranslation.org. 2016-03-24.
  1. Jeune Afrique magazine, September 5, 1990, cited by Adel Darwish and Gregory Alexander in "Unholy Babylon, The Secret History of Saddam's War" (Victor Gollenz Ltd London 1991): p. 71

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