WRITER

Mohamed Choukri

1935 - 2003

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Mohamed Choukri (Arabic: محمد شكري, Amazigh: ⵎⵓⵃⴰⵎⵎⴻⴷ ⵛⵓⴽⵔⵉ) (15 July 1935 – 15 November 2003) was a Moroccan author and novelist who is best known for his internationally acclaimed autobiography For Bread Alone (al-Khubz al-Hafi), which was described by the American playwright Tennessee Williams as "a true document of human desperation, shattering in its impact". Choukri was born in 1935 in Ayt Chiker (Ayt Chiker, hence his adopted family name: Choukri / Chikri), a small village in the Rif mountains in the Nador province, Morocco. He was raised in a very poor family. He ran away from his tyrannical father and became a homeless child living in the poor neighbourhoods of Tangier, surrounded by misery, prostitution, violence and drug abuse. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mohamed Choukri is the 1,695th most popular writer (up from 2,000th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Morocco (up from 49th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Moroccan Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mohamed Choukri ranks 1,695 out of 7,302. Before him are Michael Cunningham, Mahadevi Varma, François Pierre La Varenne, Karen Armstrong, Edward Albee, and Symeon the Metaphrast. After him are Sima Xiangru, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, James Brendan Connolly, Enzo of Sardinia, Mateo Alemán, and Ole Nydahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Mohamed Choukri ranks 104. Before him are Masahito, Prince Hitachi, Robert Silverberg, Thomas Keneally, Luis del Sol, André Brink, and Valeri Kubasov. After him are Ron Paul, Dharmendra, Justin Francis Rigali, Marina Doria, Lyudmila Gurchenko, and Dick McTaggart. Among people deceased in 2003, Mohamed Choukri ranks 80. Before him are Lu'ay al-Atassi, Marie Trintignant, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, David Hemmings, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, and Canaan Banana. After him are Michael Jeter, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Denis Thatcher, Prince Carl Bernadotte, Rik Van Steenbergen, and Michael Kamen.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Mohamed Choukri ranks 38 out of 264. Before him are Larbi Benbarek (1914), Aziz Akhannouch (1961), Mehdi Ben Barka (1920), Abd al-Hafid of Morocco (1875), Sayyida al Hurra (1485), and Ahmad al-Badawi (1199). After him are Mohammed ben Abdallah (1710), Abd al-Rahman of Morocco (1779), Philippe Barbarin (1950), Ahmed Faras (1946), Muhammad IV of Morocco (1803), and Christian de Portzamparc (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Morocco

Among writers born in Morocco, Mohamed Choukri ranks 4. Before him are Fatema Mernissi (1940), Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944), and Daniel Pennac (1944). After him are Driss Chraïbi (1926), Dunash ben Labrat (920), Eva Illouz (1961), Malika Oufkir (1953), Ahmed Rami (1946), Muriel Barbery (1969), Katherine Pancol (1954), and Leïla Slimani (1981).

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