page_title: List of Moroccan people
section_title: Twentieth century
hierarchical_section_title: List of Moroccan people / Writers / Twentieth century
caption_attribution_description: English: Nicole Elgrissy, Moroccan writer
context_page_description: This is a list of notable Moroccans or people of Moroccan descent.
context_section_description: Eliette Abécassis, French writer, novelist and playwright
  Leila Abouzeid, Arabic-language novelist
  Mohammed Achaari, writer, poet and politician
  Said Achtouk, poet, musician and songwriter
  Mririda n’Ait Attik (c. 1900–c. 1930), Tashelhit-language poet
  Lotfi Akalay, writer and businessman
  Idriss ibn al-Hassan al-Alami (1925–2007)
  Mohammed ibn Mohammed Alami, poet
  Allal al-Fassi (1910–1974)
  Malika al-Fassi, journalist, playwright, novelist
  Mohammed al-Habib al-Fourkani (1922–2008)
  Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari (1920–1997)
  Abdullah al-Ghumari (1910–1993)
  Ahmad al-Ghumari (1902–1961)
  Mohammed Abed al-Jabri (1936–2010)
  Ahmad al-Tayyeb Aldj (born 1928)
  Tewfik Allal (born 1947)
  Ahmed al-Madini (born 1949)
  Mohammed al-Makki al-Nasiri (1906–1994)
  Tuhami al-Wazzani (1903–1972)
  Ali ibn Qasim al-Zaqqaq (died 1506)
  Ali Azaykou (1942–2004)
  Latifa Baka, novelist, short story writer
  Muriel Barbery, Moroccan-born French novelist, educator
  Leigh Bardugo, Israeli-born American young adult and fantasy author
  Hafsa Bekri, poet, short story writer, feminist writer
  Abdelmalek Belghiti (1906–2010)
  Abdelkader Benali (born 1975)
  Mehdi Ben Barka (1920–1965)
  Siham Benchekroun, novelist, poet, short story writer
  Rajae Benchemsi, poet, essayist, novelist
  Esther Bendahan, Moroccan-born Spanish non-fiction writer, novelist
  Abdelmajid Benjelloun (1919–1981)
  Abdelmajid Benjelloun (born 1944)
  Tahar Ben Jelloun (born 1944)
  Abdelwahab Benmansour (1920–13 November 2008)
  Mohammed Suerte Bennani (born 1961)
  Mohammed Bennis (born 1948)
  Khnata Bennouna, novelist, short story writer
  Khnata bent Bakkar, dowager sultana, biographer, letter writer
  Mohammed Benzakour (born 1972)
  Mohammed Berrada (born 1938)
  Hafsa Bikri
  Mahi Binebine (born 1959)
  Ali Bourequat
  Ahmed Bouzfour (born 1954)
  Al-Yazid al-Buzidi Bujrafi (born 1925)
  Mohamed Chafik (born 1926)
  Nadia Chafik, novelist, non-fiction writer, educator
  Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi (1937–1986)
  Isaac Chocrón, Venezuelan economist, playwright and translator.
  Sonia Chocrón, Venezuelan poet, novelist, screenwriter and playwright
  Mohamed Choukri (1935–2003)
  Driss Chraïbi (1926–2007)
  Mohammed Daoud (1901–1984)
  Zakya Daoud, French-born Moroccan journalist, magazine editor, non-fiction writer
  Farida Diouri, novelist
  Najat El Hachmi (born 1979)
  Youssouf Amine Elalamy (born 1961)
  Nicole Elgrissy, Moroccan writer and activist
  Mohammed Aziz El-Hababi (1922–1993)
  Najat El Hachmi, Spanish-Moroccan writer
  Allal El Hajjam (born 1948)
  Driss El Khouri
  Edmond Amran El Maleh (1917–2010)
  Mahdi Elmandjra (born 1933)
  Mohammed El-Moustaoui (born 1943)
  Youssef Fadel (born 1949)
  Halima Ferhat
  Éric Fottorino, French writer and journalist
  Abdelkrim Ghallab (1919–2006)
  Soumya Naâmane Guessous, best selling non-fiction writer, sociologist, educator
  Abdallah Guennoun (1910–1989)
  Ali Haddani (1936–2007)
  Badia Hadj Nasser
  Ahmed Harrak Srifi (died 1925)
  Ben Salem Himmich (born 1947)
  Ali Squalli Houssaini (born 1932)
  Salim Jay (born 1951)
  Liz Jensen
  Abderrafi Jouahri (born 1943)
  Abdelkarim Jouiti (born 1962)
  Ahmed Joumari (1939–1995)
  Maati Kabbal
  Maguy Kakon, non-fiction writer, women's rights activist
  Mohammed Kaghat (1942–2001)
  Mohammed Khammar Kanouni (1938–1991)
  Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine (1941–1995)
  Abdelkebir Khatibi (born 1938)
  Rita El Khayat, psychiatrist, publisher, women's rights activist, non-fiction writer
  Abdelfattah Kilito (born 1945)
  Driss Ksikes
  Abdellatif Laabi (born 1942)
  Leila Lahlou, author of the novel Do Not Forget God (1987)
  Mohammed Aziz Lahbabi (1922–1993)
  Abdelrahim Lahbibi (born 1950)
  Laila Lalami, Moroccan-American novelist, essayist
  Wafaa Lamrani, poet
  Abdallah Laroui (born 1933)
  Fouad Laroui (born 1958), Moroccan economist and writer
  Mohammed Leftah (1946–2008)
  Ahmed Lemsih (born 1950)
  Ali Lmrabet (born 1959)
  Zahra Mansouri
  Ahmed Mejjati (1936–1995)
  Saida Menebhi, poet, Marxist activist
  Fatema Mernissi, feminist writer, sociologist
  Mohamed Mrabet (born 1936)
  Mostafa Nissaboury (born 1943)
  Rachid O (born 1970)
  Malika Oufkir, memoirist, author of Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
  Touria Oulehri, novelist, critic
  Bachir Qamari (born
caption: Nicole Elgrissy
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