Bensalim Himmich
was born in Meknès, Morocco in 1949. He has published six novels, four collections of poetry, and books of essays and literary criticism. Majnun al-Hukm won the Riad El-Rayyes Prize for the Novel in 1989. He won the Great Atlas Prize for his novel Al-’Alaama [The Learned One] whose French edition was published in 2002. He teaches Philosophy at Rabat University.
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Banipal No 12 Autumn 2001
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