Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1935-07-15 (68 years old)
Deathday
2003-11-15
Place of Birth
Beni Chiker, Morocco
Also known As
محمد شكري
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Mohammed Choukri
Mohamed Choukri (1935–2003), was a Moroccan author and novelist. He 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". Born in in Ayt Chiker, a small village in the Rif mountains in the Nador province, Morocco, Choukri was raised in an extremely 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. At the age of 20, he decided to le...
2004
as Writer
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