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Yasmine Chami-Kettani (born 1966 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan novelist. She won the Arab World Institute Prize, for her novel To Die is an Enchantment.

Life

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Yasmine Chami continued her higher education at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, before joining the École normale supérieure Ulm.[1] She studied anthropology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS).

She published her first novel Cérémonie in 1999 with Actes Sud.

In 2001, she decided to return to live in Morocco, after her sons were born. She directed the Villa des Arts in Casablanca.[2] She founded and managed for ten years an audiovisual production company which, through social programs broadcast by Moroccan television, documented the development challenges in Moroccan urbanization.[3] She addressed, among other things, issues linked to patriarchy, education, the place of women, money, sexuality, and religion.[4] Since 2012, she has devoted herself to teaching.

In 2017, she published Mourir est un enchantment for which she won the Arab Institute prize.[5][6] Her work appeared in Le Monde.[7]

Works

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  • Cérémonie : roman, Arles, Actes Sud, coll. " Babel " (no 533), 2002 ISBN 2-7427-3733-2 [8]
  • Mourir est un enchantement roman, Arles, Actes Sud, coll. " Domaine français", 2017 ISBN 978-2-330-07931-4
  • Médée chérie : roman, Arles, Actes Sud, coll. "Babel" (no 1785), 2018 ISBN 978-2-330-11774-0 [9][10]
  • Dans sa chair : roman, Arles, Actes Sud, coll. "Domaine français ", 2022 ISBN 978-2-330-16124-8 [11]
  • Casablanca Circus : roman, Arles, Actes Sud, coll. "Domaine français", 2023 ISBN 978-2-330-18228-1 [12]

References

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  1. ^ "Yasmine Chami-Kettani (auteur de Dans sa chair)". Babelio (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  2. ^ "Une heure avec... Yasmine Chami". Institut du monde arabe (in French). 2018-12-17. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  3. ^ "Yasmine Chami - Edition CONVERSO". www.edition-converso.com. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  4. ^ Jay, Salim (2005). Dictionnaire des écrivains marocains (in French). Eddif. ISBN 978-9981-09-111-5.
  5. ^ Yabiladi.com. "The Moroccan writer, Yasmine Chami, awarded by the Arab World Institute". en.yabiladi.com. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  6. ^ News, Safaa Kasraoui-Morocco World. "Moroccan Author Yassmine Chami Receives Special Mention From 2017 Arab Literature Prize' Jury". www.moroccoworldnews.com. Retrieved 2024-05-04. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  7. ^ "Yasmine Chami, novelist: 'The Moroccan team proves that globalization can also be an asset for countries of the South'". Le Monde.fr. 2022-12-14. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  8. ^ Célestin, R.; DalMolin, E.; Courtivron, I. (2016-04-30). Beyond French Feminisms: Debates on Women, Culture and Politics in France 1980-2001. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-09514-5.
  9. ^ ""Médée chérie" de Yasmine Chami, une révélation". rts.ch (in French). 2019-02-21. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  10. ^ Winkler, Markus; Boletsi, Maria (2023-07-31). Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature, and the Arts: Vol. II: Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-476-04611-6.
  11. ^ Evans, Jane E. (2022). "Dans sa chair by Yasmine Chami (review)". The French Review. 96 (2): 210. doi:10.1353/tfr.2022.0260. ISSN 2329-7131.
  12. ^ "" Casablanca Circus ", virée dans la ville-monde avec Yasmine Chami - L'Humanité". www.humanite.fr (in French). 2023-10-31. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
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