Moroccan poet (born 1943)

Mostafa Nissaboury (born in Casablanca in 1943) is a Moroccan poet.

Nissaboury was one of the co-founders of the magazine Anfas/Souffles ("Breaths"), an avant-garde bilingual quarterly that published essays, poetry, and fiction. (The magazine was banned in 1972.) Together with Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, Mostafa Nissaboury wrote the manifest "Poésie Toute" in 1964, an important milestone in the history of Moroccan literature. In Casablanca he opened a house solely devoted to poetry. His works contributed much to the renewal of Moroccan poetry.

References

External links

• Poems by Mostafa Nissaboury in New Poetry in Translation
• The poem "It is a city" by Mostafa Nissaboury in Drunken Boat