“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. At the age of 20, he decided to learn how to read and write and later became a schoolteacher. His family name Choukri is connected to the name Ayt Chiker which is the Amazigh tribe cluster he belonged to before fleeing hunger to Tangier. It is most likely that he adopted this name later in Tangier because in the rural Rif family names were rarely registered.
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For Bread Alone
For Bread Alone , al-Khubz al-Hafi) is a controversial autobiographical work by Mohammed Choukri. It was written in Arabic in 1972 and translated into English by Paul Bowles in 1973.[1] In 1980, it was published in French as Le Pain Nu in a translation by Tahar Ben Jelloun. The novel has been translated into 39 foreign languages[2] and adapted into a French graphic novel by Abdelaziz Mouride [fr].[3]
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الخيمة
على صفحات “الخيمة” تنزلق عيناك متابعة الكلمات التي تشعر وكأن أذناك تلتقطها. عبارات وكلمات نابية وغير نابية تسمعها وتروح مع محمد شكري عبر عالمه المغرق في الواقعية لتتعرف على أزقة وأسواق وحانات ونساء مغربيات، فقر مدقع، وروائح، وهيئات، وحالات لم يكتف محمد شكري على عادته بإشباعها وصفاً، بل هو بطريقة أو بأخرى امتد إلى دواخلها فكشف عنها… هي واقعيّة التي اختارها لأعماله الأدبية لم تمتد إليها يد الخيال، وكأن الواقع الأليم، الجوع، الخوف، القهر، الفقر والخيبة والفشل أفزعا الخيال فلاذ بالفرار
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