Edmond Amran El Maleh Explained

Edmond Amran El Maleh
Native Name:إدمون عمران المالح
Birth Date:30 March 1917
Birth Place:Safi, Morocco
Occupation:Journalist, Writer
Awards:Grand Prix du Maroc

Edmond Amran El Maleh (Arabic: إدمون عمران المالح) (30 March 1917 – 15 November 2010) was a Moroccan writer and activist.

Biography

El Maleh was born in Safi, Morocco to a Jewish Berber family.[1] [2] During his youth he joined the Moroccan Communist Party. He moved to Paris in 1965, working there as a journalist and a teacher of philosophy.

He only began writing in 1980, at the age of 63, traveling back and forth between France and Morocco. He stated that, in spite of his long stay in France, he had devoted his entire literary life to Morocco. From 1999 until his death he lived in Rabat.[3] [4]

There is controversy about his political stance; however, nothing has ever been corroborated. He was buried, according to his wishes, in the Jewish cemetery in Essaouira. He wrote in French.

Works

References

  1. Web site: إدمون المالح.. يهودي مغربي مناهض للصهيونية .
  2. Web site: The Writer Edmond Amran El Maleh: A Moroccan Jew with Arabo-Berber Roots . Qantara.de . Regina . Keil-Sagawe . 2011 . 19 January 2020.
  3. Salim Jay, Dictionnaire des écrivains marocains, Eddif, 2005, p.176-179
  4. Web site: Petite biographie d'un très grand écrivain . www.aujourdhui.ma . 12 August 2010 . fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120325002147/http://www.aujourdhui.ma/culture-details6001.html . 25 March 2012 .

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