Fouad Laroui

Fouad Laroui (born in 1958) is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. Over the past twenty years, Laroui has been consistently building an oeuvre centered around universally contemporary themes: identity in a globalized world, dialogue/confrontation between cultures, the individual versus the group, etc. With ten novels and five collections of short stories written in French, plus two collections of poems written in Dutch, a play, many essays, and scientific papers (written in French or English), his ongoing ambitious literary output has been recognized with many awards, including: Prix Albert Camus, Prix Mediterranée, Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle, Grande médaille de la Francophonie de l’Académie française, Prix du meilleur roman francophone, Premio Francesco Alziator (Italy), Samuel-Pallache-Prijs (The Netherlands), E. du Perron Prijs (The Netherlands). (Photo credit: courtesy of Institut Français)