Mute Memory: Ahmed Bouanani’s Morocco

Omar Berrada speaks about the reclusive auteur Ahmed Bouanani. From the website of La Maison Française:

L’hôpital is a cult classic of contemporary Moroccan literature. Mirage is widely considered to be one of the most important feature films made in North Africa. Nevertheless, their polymath author, Ahmed Bouanani (1938-2011), died in relative obscurity. He shunned the limelight and, unless friends forced his hand, avoided sending his work to publishers. In a sense, Bouanani’s oeuvre is still forthcoming: his death uncovered dozens of completed manuscripts, of many genres—poetry, fiction, plays, film scripts, essays, history books, as well as drawings and graphic novels.