Abdelfattah Kilito


Abdelfattah Kilito 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, the Atlas Award, the French Academy Award and Sultan Al Owais Prize for Criticism and Literature Studies.

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 classical Arabic literature. Kilito is Professor of Arts at Mohammed V University in Rabat.

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