Moussa Ould Ebnou

Moussa Ould Ebnou (born 1956) is one of Mauritania’s greatest novelists.  He has published two novels in French: L’amour impossible (1990) and Le Barzakh (1994), which were later published in Arabic as: الحب المستحيل ("al-Hubb al-Mustahil") (1999), and مدينة الرياح (Madinat al-Riyah) (1996).  Ebnou has also published two other works in Arabic: حج الفجار (Hujj al-Fijar) (2003), and الامثال والحكم الشعبية الموريتانية al-Imthal w'al-Hakm ash-Sha'biya al-Muritaniya . 

Moussa Ould Ebnou was born in Boutilimit. 

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Category:20th-century male writers