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- ↑ Salim Jay, Dictionnaire des écrivains marocains, Eddif, 2005, p. 320
- ↑ Simon Gikandi, Encyclopedia of African Literature, ed. Taylor & Francis, 2003, ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3, p. 677
