Moroccan writer (born 1945)

Abdelfattah Kilito (Arabic: عبد الفتاح كيليطو; born 10 April 1945, in Rabat) is a Moroccan writer. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also written articles for magazines such as Poétique and Studia Islamica. Some of the awards Kilito has won are the Great Moroccan Award (1989), the Atlas Award (1996), the French Academy Award (le prix du Rayonnement de la langue française) (1996) and Sultan Al Owais Prize for Criticism and Literature Studies (2006).

Contents

• 1 Life
• 2 References
• 3 Bibliography
  • 3.1 By Kilito
  • 3.2 On Kilito
• 4 External links

Life

Kilito was born in 1945 in Rabat, Morocco. He was raised in the medina of the old city of Rabat. Kilito learned French from the age of six. He also studied German, and was trained as a scholar of cl*ical Arabic literature in the Faculté des Lettres at the Mohammed V University. Kilito is Professor of Arts at Mohammed V University in Rabat.

References

Bibliography

By Kilito

• Les séances: récits et codes culturels chez Hamadhânî et Harîrî (in French). Sindbad. 1983. ISBN:978-2-7274-0086-8.
• L'Auteur et ses doubles: Essai sur la culture arabe cl*ique (in French). Éditions du Seuil. 1985. ISBN:9782020069656.
  • The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Cl*ical Arabic Culture. Translated by Cooperson, Michael. Syracuse University Press. 2001. ISBN:978-0-8156-2936-8.
• La langue d'Adam: et autres essais (in French). Toubkal. 1999. ISBN:978-9981-880-29-0.
• Les Arabes et l'art du récit: une étrange familiarité (in French). Paris: Sindbad/Actes Sud. 2009. ISBN:978-2-7427-8110-2.
  • Arabs and the Art of Storytelling: A Strange Familiarity. translated by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin. New York: Syracuse University Press. 2014. ISBN:978-0-8156-5286-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language, translated by Waïl S. H*an, 2008, ISBN:978-0815635604
• Je parle toutes les langues, mais en arabe, 2013, ISBN:978-2330016340
• The Clash of Images, 1995 (translated by Robyn Creswell, 2010), ISBN:978-0811224932

On Kilito

• Abdelhaq Anoun, Abdelfattah Kilito:: les origines culturelles d'un roman maghrébin, Harmattan, Collection Critiques Littéraires, 2004, ISBN:2-7475-6841-5

External links

• Penatlas entry