Ahmed Bouzfour

Ahmed Bouzfour is a Moroccan novelist.

Biography

Born in the early 1940s near to Taza, Bouzfour received his primary education and learned the Qur'an in a Quranic school. He then studied at the University of Al Qaraouiyine in Fès, where he completed his high school studies and obtained a baccalauréat in 1966. After that, he was arrested and incarcerated during three months for his political activism.
Bouzfour continued his studies in the "Faculty of Humanities and Human Science" in Mohammed V University, in Rabat, where he obtained a licence of Arabic literature, then, in 1972, a master in modern Moroccan literature.
His first novella, Yas'alounaka âni al-qatl was published in 1971 in Al-Alam, a [List of Morocco|Moroccan newspapers|Moroccan newspaper] belonging to the Istiqlal Party.

Works

Ta'abbaṭa shiâran

Three collections of novellas :
*An-naḍar fi al-wajh al-âaziz in 1983
*Al-Ġābir Al-Ḍāhir en 1987
*Sayyād al-Naâam en 1993Dīwān as-sindibād Az-zarāfa al-mushtaâila : Points of view about Moroccan modern stories