Yassin Adnan
was born in 1970 in Safi, Morocco. In 1991 he published, with poet Saad Sarhane, a literary magazine Aswat Muassira [Contemporary Voices], later with Saad Sarhane, Taha Adnan and Rashid Nini the magazine al-Gharah al-Shiriya [Poetic Attack]. He teaches English in a high school. He holds the prizes of Moufdi Zakaria (Algeria, 1991), of the Union of Writers in Morocco (1998) and the Buland al-Haydari prize for the young poet (Asilah, 2003). He has two collections of poetry and one of short stories.
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Banipal No 18 Autumn 2003
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