Fouad Laroui
Biography
Fouad Laroui was born in Oujda in 1958. His father disappeared when he was eleven, presumably arrested by the Moroccan authorities. He was never seen again. He studied engineering at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and became an engineer. After working for a phosphate mining company in Morocco, he lived in England and then moved to Amsterdam, where he teaches econometrics and environmental science. He has written novels, short stories and essays but only one collection of his stories has been translated into English. His style tends towards mocking Morocco, particularly its corruption and bureaucracy.
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Bibliography
1996 Les Dents du topographe [The Teeth of the Topographer] (novel)
1998 De quel amour blessé (novel)
1999 Méfiez-vous des parachutistes (novel)
2000 Le Maboul (stories)
2001 Vreemdeling: aangenaam (essay)
2002 Verbannen Woorden (poetry)
2003 La fin tragique de Philomène Tralala (novel)
2003 Chroniques des temps déraisonnables (articles)
2004 Hollandse woorden (poetry)
2004 Tu n’as rien compris à Hassan II (stories)
2006 De l’islamisme. Une réfutation personnelle du totalitarisme religieux (essay)
2006 L’Oued et le Consul (stories)
2008 La femme la plus riche du Yorkshire (novel)
2009 Le jour où Malika ne s’est pas mariée (stories)
2010 Une année chez les Français (novel)
2010 Le drame linguistique marocain (essay)
2010 Des Bédouins dans le polder: histoires tragi-comiques de l’émigration (essay)
2011 La vieille dame du Riad (novel)
2012 Le jour où j’ai déjeuné avec le Diable (articles)
2012 L’Étrange Affaire du pantalon de Dassoukine (The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers) (stories)
2014 Du bon usage des djinns (articles)
2014 Les Tribulations du dernier Sijilmassi (novel)
2014 Ce vain combat que tu livres au monde (novel)
2015 D’un pays sans frontières (essay)
2015 L’Oued et le Consul (stories)
2015 Les noces fabuleuses du Polonais (stories)
2017 L’Insoumise de la Porte de Flandre (novel)
2017 Méditations marocaines : chroniques (articles)
2018 Dieu, les mathématiques, la folie (mathematics)
2018 Lumières marocaines (art)
2019 Chroniques de l’autre rive (articles)