Nadia Chafik


Nadia Chafik is a Moroccan novelist.

Biography

Nadia Chafik was born in Casablanca in 1962, and grew up in Rabat. She is from the Ait Sadden tribe, a Middle Atlas Berber tribe. Chafik studied at Montreal University and she taught in the same university during two years. Her principal academic works are: "Être romancière au Maghreb" and Une autre lecture du Maghreb à travers l'art scriptural et pictural français du 19e siècle.
After teaching also at Ibn Tofaïl University of Kénitra, Nadia Chafik follows her career at Mohammed V University of Rabat where she teaches Literature and organizes some cultural activities like: "Ateliers d'écriture", or "Rencontres avec les auteurs".
She published short stories and three novels. Nos jours aveugles is her first collection of short stories. The last one is: Tête de poivre for which she was nominated for the Prix Grand Atlas 2012 of French Embassy. A critic of French Institute in Morocco writes about this book: " autant de fragments de vie qui mettent à l'honneur la poésie de l'existence".

Books