Author: Mohammed Said Hjiouij
Born: 1 April 1982
Bio: Mohammed Said Hjiouij (born April 1, 1982) is a Moroccan novelist. His novel "By Night in Tangier" won the Inaugural Ismail Fahd Ismail Prize (2019). His second novel, "The Riddle of Edmond Amran El Maleh," has been shortlisted for "The Ghassan Kanafani Prize for Arabic Fiction (2022)", and the Hebrew translation is forthcoming. "Kafka in Tangier" has been translated into English and Kurmanji, with excerpts in both Hebrew and Italian.