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Ismail Ghazali

An acclaimed Moroccan novelist, short-story writer, and cultural journalist. Regarded as one of the most daring pioneers of avant-garde narrative experimentation, surrealism, and labyrinthine storytelling in contemporary Arabic literature, Ghazali is the recipient of the prestigious Morocco Book Award (Prix du Maroc du Livre 2021) for Cats of the Archipelago City and the Tayeb Salih International Award for Creative Writing (2011). He achieved widespread international acclaim when his novel The Season of Fishing Zanjour was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2014. Author of over a dozen celebrated novels and story collections—including Three Days in Casablanca, The River Bites Its Own Tail, and Drunk on a Bicycle (longlisted for the Al-Multaqa Prize)—Ghazali’s fiction masterfully blends detective noir, cinematic aesthetics, music history, and hypnotic magical realism.

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