The National Library of Morocco celebrated on Friday the 50 year-long literary career of scholar and author Ahmed Al-Madini, on the occasion of the release of the new edition of his collection “Violence in the Brain.”
The celebration took place in the presence of several personalities from the world of art, culture and media, revisiting the most prominent stops in Al Madini’s career in novels, short stories, poetry and critique.
The scholar expressed his happiness in a speech, noting that for him, it is a celebration of all Moroccan literature.
Moroccan author Al-Madini won several prizes in literature, with his works focusing on societal issues, the human being in his search for himself, his aspirations, his sorrows and his joys, and simply everything he aspires for the sake of progress and dignity.
“Al-Madini is distinguished by his dedication to literary writing since the seventies, despite his other preoccupations in the press, politics, among others,” said novelist Mohamed Al-Ashari, adding that the writer’s literary works reflect his professionalism, the length of his experience and his cultural capacity.
To Al-Ashari, Al-Madini is “a writer who touched in his writings the issues that the country experienced during his time, as he belongs to a generation of seasoned intellectuals who lived through the political and social transformations that Morocco went through,”
Author and critic Najib Al-Oufi also stressed that this celebration is “worthy of a Moroccan author who has done well in modern Moroccan literature. He is a writer who has crossed generations, accumulated very important stories and narratives that made the flame of the seventies continuous and present among the current new generations.”
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