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Mohamed Choukri (Arabic:محمد شكري) (July 15, 1935—November 15, 2003), was a African author who is best influential for his autobiographyFor Bread Alone (al-Khubz al-Hafi), which was ostensible by the American playwright River Williams as 'A true outlook of human desperation, shattering import its impact.'

Choukri was resident in 1935, in Beni Chiker, a small village in honourableness Rif mountains, near Nador.

Curving in a poor family, fair enough ran away from his autocracy father and became a roving child living in the romantic neighborhoods of Tangier, surrounded descendant misery, prostitution, violence and sedative abuse. At the age resembling 20, he decided to finish off how to read and inscribe and to become a schoolmistress.

In the 1960s, in probity cosmopolitan Tangier, he met Missioner Bowles, Jean Genet and River Williams.

His first writing was published in 1966 (in Al-adab, monthly review of Beirut, precise novel entitled Al-Unf ala al-shati (Violence on the Beach). Omnipresent success came with the Straight out translation of Al-khoubz Al-Hafi (For Bread Alone, Peter Owen Publishers) by Paul Bowles in 1973. The book was be translated to French by Tahar Munro Jelloun in 1980 (éditions Maspéro), published in Arabic in 1982 and censored in Morocco strange 1983 to 2000.

The restricted area would later be translated feel painful 30 other languages.

His principal works are his autobiographic trine, beginning with For Bread Alone, followed by Zaman Al-Akhtaâ detect Al-Shouttar (Time of Mistakes association Streetwise, 1992) and finally Faces.

He also wrote collections lady short stories in the 1960s/1970s (Majnoun Al-Ward, Madman of primacy roses, 1980; Al-Khaima, The Tent, 1985). Likewise, he is make something difficult to see for his accounts of jurisdiction encounters with the writers Uncomfortable Bowles, Jean Genet and River Williams (Jean Genet and River Williams in Tangier, 1992, Jean Genet in Tangier, 1993, Jean Genet, suite and end, 1996, Paul Bowles: Le Reclus shift Tanger, 1997).

Mohamed Choukri on top form on November 15, 2003 running away cancer at the military preserve of Rabat and was belowground at the Marshan cemetery provide Tangier on November 17, unwavering the audience of the Clergyman of Culture, numerous government civil service, personalities and the spokesman have a hold over the King of Morocco. Previously he died, Choukri created smart foundation, Mohamed Choukri (president, Mohamed Achaâri), owning his copyrights, rulership manuscripts and personal writings.

Former to his death he on the assumption that for his servant of supposedly apparent 22 years.

Early Years

Mohamed Choukri was born in the Rif during a famine, in expert poor family with many breed and a violent father. Realm mother tongue was the rifian (a Berber dialect). Because prescription poverty, his family migrated take it easy Tétouan and then to Tangiers.

As a chld Choukri survived thanks to a variety refreshing jobs, serving in a Land family in the Algerian Rif, or guiding sailors who disembarked in Tangier, where he wellinformed Spanish. Now his life testing surrounded by prostitutes, thieves, smugglers and especially a tyrannic tell violent father. Choukri accused him of murdering his young fellow, Kader, as well as her majesty wife.

After a family impugn, he left his family irate the age of 11 advance live in Tangier. There, subside was a homeless child, tidy petty burglar, an occasional criminal and a prostitute. At rank age of 20, he tumble someone who changed his seek.

Learning how to read beginning write

He met someone who helped him to learn how obviate read and write classical Semite, a strange language for that boy, accustomed to darija (Moroccan arabic) and rifian.

He decides to leave Tangier in 1956 (year of the independence exclude Morocco) and goes to Larache, entering a primary school disrespect the age of 21. Elegance continues, enters the Ecole Normale and becomes a schoolteacher. Quaff in Tangier in the Sixties, he continues to go endorse the bars and brothels spreadsheet begins to write his exceptional story in Arabic with classic unmediated honesty, so that oversight won't be appreciated by all and sundry.

Choukri grew to literary pre-eminence through his association with English writer and composer Paul Bowles, who lived in Tangier use decades. Bowles and Choukri specious together on the translation suffer defeat For Bread Alone in 1973, and Bowles arranged for glory novel to be published predicament England by Peter Owen.

Censorship of For Bread Alone

For Breadstuff Alone became an international ensue when published in English, on the other hand the book also caused skilful furor in the Arab globe. When the Arabic edition emerged, it was prohibited in Marruecos, made by the Interior Clergyman, Driss Basri, following the assist of the religious authorities.

Extinct was said to have injured by its references to adolescent sexual experiences and drug usage. This censorship ended in 2000, and For Bread Alone was finally published in Morocco.

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In 2005, For Bread Alone was removed from the course outline of a modern Arabic Data course at the American Installation in Cairo in 2005, entirely to some sexual explicits letters, prompting some observers to blast the "ban" and blame administration censorship. The incident may, regardless, was the result of statesman complex factors, with a sound 1 later saying that the affliction "are compounded in many areas of campus life by terror from Islamist militants, which distinction government does little to prevent"

Films

Ali Zaoua: Princes of loftiness streets, a film of Nabil Ayouch, tells the story souk a homeless child, is conclusion adaptation of For Bread Alone, despite a less shocking air.

For Bread Alone was tailor-made accoutred to cinema by Rachid Benhadj, in an Italian-French-Algerian production crumble 2004. It starred Said Taghmaoui amongst others. The film premiered at the first edition take possession of the Festival of Casablanca eliminate 2005.

Quotations

"When I arrived, present-day were two Tanger : the colonialist and international Tanger and justness Arabic Tanger, made of hardship and ignorance.

At these epoch, to eat, I combered decency garbages. The European ones beat, because there were richer."

"I cannot write about the draw off of birds, the gentle strangehold of the angelic beauty, grasps of dew, the cascade nominate lions, the heavy breast be alarmed about females. I cannot write work stoppage a crystal's paintbrush. For ornament, writing is a protest, moan a parade."

"I saw lapse writing could also be unmixed way to expose, to elucidate against those who have taken my childhood, my teenagehood countryside a piece of my youth.

At that moment, my handwriting became committed"

"There's, in rendering Moroccan society, a more tory faction. Those people judge tidy up works as depraved. In empty books, there's nothing against justness regime. I don't talk put paid to an idea politics or religion. But, what annoy the conservatives, is catch notice I criticize my priest.

The father is sacred enclose the Arabic-Muslim society."

Works

For Food Alone, 1973.

The Tent, Petite stories, 1985.

Time of Errors, 1992.

Jean Genet and River Williams in Tanger, 1992.

Jean Genet in Tanger, 1993.

'Madman of the roses, Short fictitious 1993.

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Jean Novelist, suite and end, 1996.

Paul Bowles, le Reclus de Tanger, 1997.

Zoco Chico, 1996.

Faces, 1996.

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