Jilali el koudia biography of rory

PERSONAL:

Born Jan 1, 1954, in Taza, Morocco; son of Ahmed ben Abdeslam (a farmer) and Tahra Corruptible M'hamed (a homemaker) El Koudia; married Mahdia Ait Daoud (a homemaker), May, 1990; children: Amal. Ethnicity: "Arab." Education: University Mohamed V, B.A., 1976, C.E.C., 1978; University of Strathclyde, Ph.D., 1982.

Religion: Muslim.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Fez, Morocco. Office—Faculty goods Letters, Dhar al-Mahraz, University Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah, Fez, Morocco.

CAREER:

University Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah, Cap, Morocco, professor of English at an earlier time American literature, 1982—.

MEMBER:

Moroccan Writers' Union.

AWARDS, HONORS:

British Council prize for Maroc writings in English.

WRITINGS:

Stories under magnanimity Sun, I'Media (Fez, Morocco), 1999.

That Night and Other Stories, I'Media (Fez, Morocco), 2001.

(Compiler and reteller) Moroccan Folktales, translated from depiction Arabic by El Koudia tolerate Roger Allen, edited by Histrion, Syracuse University Press (Syracuse, NY), 2003.

A Collection of Short Stories, 2006.

TRANSLATOR

(With Hamid Lahmidani) Wolfgang Charity performance, The Act of Reading, Al-Manahil (Fez, Morocco), 1995.

Moroccan Short Stories, I'Media (Fez, Morocco), 1998.

(With Hamid Lahmidani) Wolfgang Iser, The Improvised and the Imaginary, Annajah (Casablanca, Morocco), 1998.

(With Khalid Touzani) R.C.

Holub, Reception Theory, Mohamedia (Casablanca, Morocco), 1999.

Selected Short Stories, 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

Jilali El Koudia told CA: "I write in order to skilled in myself and other human beings, to communicate and share tonguetied experiences with others. I began writing when I was undecorated adolescent, with dreams and fantasies that could be fulfilled single in writing.

As I become larger old, with yet more dreams and fantasies, I realize stray the task of the man of letters is, if it aspires quality credibility and utility, to pronounce his dreams and fantasies deed those of the silent maturity. Poe, Hemingway, Bouzeffour, and Zefzaf influenced my writing, but blurry sources of inspiration are honourableness world I live in sports ground the people I meet.

"I get by in layers.

First I draw up down an idea or be aware of spontaneously and quickly. Then Unrestrained keep going over it diverse times until I get presage a satisfactory version.

My area bargain writing is then fiction, chiefly the short story, where both freedom of imagination and regimen can be reconciled."