Abdelkebir Khatibi was a prolific Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist. Affected in his late twenties by the rebellious spirit of 1960s counterculture, he challenged in his writings the social and political norms upon which the countries of the Maghreb region were constructed. His collection of essays Maghreb pluriel is one of his most notable works.
Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, journalist, novelist, playwright, translator and political activist, born in 1942 in Fes, Morocco.
Nabil Ayouch is a Franco-Moroccan television and film director, producer, and writer. His films have screened at international film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and Montreal World Film Festival.
Nadia Chafik is a Moroccan novelist.
Mohammed Khair-Eddine was a Moroccan poet and writer. He was among the most famous Moroccan Berber literary figures of the 20th century.
Salim Jay is a Franco-Moroccan novelist, essayist and literary critic living in France. He has written about 20 books, numerous essays and more than thousand newspaper articles.
Bachir Bensaddek is a Canadian television director of Algerian Berber descent, best known for his co-direction of 2002 Emmy Award-winning TV series Cirque du Soleil: Fire Within.
Jean-Claude Renard was a French poet.
Pierre Fournier, better known his pen name Pierre Gascar, was a French journalist, literary critic, writer, essayist and screenwriter.
The Prix Méditerranée is a French literary award. It was created in 1984 in Perpignan by the Mediterranean Centre of Literature (CML) in order to promote cultural interaction among the numerous countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Two awards are handed out every year, the Prix Méditerranée itself and the Prix Méditerranée Étranger. The latter is given to a writer from the Mediterranean basin whose original work has been translated into French.
Habib Mazini is a Moroccan academic and writer.
The Prix Maison de la Presse is an annual French literary prize, established in 1970 by the Syndicat national des dépositaires de presse (SNDP) and Gabriel Cantin. Until 2005 it was known as Prix des Maisons de la Presse and given out in the two categories Novel (Roman) and Non-Fiction (Document), after which the name was changed and the categories merged into one.
Tahar Bekri is a Paris-based Tunisian poet and literary critic.
Jean-Christophe Bailly is a French writer, poet and playwright.
Jean Roudaut is a French writer and professor of French literature who taught in the universities of Thessaloniki, Pisa, and Fribourg. He was born in Morlaix on 1 June 1929.
Alexandre Blokh, called Jean Blot, was a French writer, translator, and senior civil servant of Russian origin.
Rose Vincent was a French journalist and writer.
Élise Fischer is a French writer, journalist and novelist from Lorraine.
Pierre Moustiers is the pen name of French writer Pierre Rossi.
Camille Bourniquel was a French poet, novelist and painter.
