Edmond El Maleh

Alma Rachel Heckman (University of California, Los Angeles)

Ed. by Lia Brozgal, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 30 Mar 1917
Died 15 Nov 2010
Activity 1980-2010

Places

Born in Morocco
Active in France; Morocco

Cultural Identities

Jewish (Primary)
North African/ Maghrebian French (Primary)

Activities

Primary

Autobiographer
Novelist
Political writer

Resources

Edmond Amran El Maleh was born in the city of Safi (Morocco), on March 30, 1917, five years after the establishment of the French Protectorate over Morocco in 1912. The El Maleh family included merchants from Essaouira, a port city that had produced many diplomatic and mercantile envoys for the kingdom. El Maleh chose another direction and joined the Moroccan Communist Party (PCM); he also taught philosophy in Morocco and France, and from his early 60s until his death in 2010 he enjoyed an active and prolific career as a writer. El Maleh’s fiction and essays have received wide recognition in Morocco, but are less well known outside francophone audiences. His work disrupts commonly held notions of Moroccan Jewish life and exodus; …

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Citation: Heckman, Alma Rachel. "Edmond El Maleh". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 April 2013 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13227, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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