Nadia Chafik
Nadia Chafik is a Moroccan novelist.
Biography
Nadia Chafik was born in Casablanca in 1962, and grew up in Rabat. She is from the Ait Sadden tribe, a Middle Atlas Berber tribe. Chafik studied at Montreal University and she taught in the same university during two years. Her principal academic works are: "Être romancière au Maghreb" and Une autre lecture du Maghreb à travers l'art scriptural et pictural français du 19e siècle.After teaching also at Ibn Tofaïl University of Kénitra, Nadia Chafik follows her career at Mohammed V University of Rabat where she teaches Literature and organizes some cultural activities like: "Ateliers d'écriture", or "Rencontres avec les auteurs".
She has published short stories and three novels. Nos jours aveugles is her first collection of short stories. The last one is: Tête de poivre for which she was nominated for the Prix Grand Atlas 2012 of French Embassy. A critic of French Institute in Morocco writes about this book: " autant de fragments de vie qui mettent à l'honneur la poésie de l'existence".
Selected works
Books
- L'atelier d'écriture. Un Laboratoire à large spectre didactique, academic work, 2013
- Tête de poivre, short stories, 2012
- Nos jours aveugles, , short stories, 2005
- Le secret des djinns, novel, 1998 - A strange man story.
- Filles du vent, novel, 1995 - Madness and misfortune's single mother
Collections
- 37 printemps, Écoute retomber le silence, poetry, in Mots de neige, de sable et d'Océan, 2008
- Clair-Obscur, in Regards d'enfant, 2003
- Ce pays, ne l'as-tu pas rêve ?, in Perles de l'Atlantique. Les Carnets marocains, short text, 2001
- Le Tatouage bleu, in Des Nouvelles du Maroc, 1999
- Écoute retomber le silence, poetry, in Sources - Revue de la Maison de la Poésie, Namur n°18, 1997
- Entre chiens et loups, in Anthologie de la nouvelle maghrébine, 1996
- Bribes, in Liberté n°182, Montréal-Canada, 1989