music.wikisort.org - Poet

Ahmed Mejjati (born in Casablanca in 1936 – October 1995) was an influential Moroccan avant-garde poet.

Moroccan literature
List of writers Women writers Moroccan literature Arabic Tamazight
Moroccan writers
Novelists Playwrights Poets Essayists Historians Travel writers Sufi writers Moorish writers
Forms
Novel Poetry
Criticism and awards
Literary theory Critics Literary prizes
See also
El Majdoub Awzal Choukri Ben Jelloun Zafzaf El Maleh Chraîbi Mernissi Leo Africanus Khaïr-Eddine Qamari
Morocco Portal Literature Portal
v t e

Biography

Mejjati studied in Damascus and completed his PhD in Arabic literature at the Mohammed V University in Rabat, where he also worked as a professor of Arabic literature.

He won the Ibn Zaydoun Award for poetry in Madrid in 1985, and the Prix du Maroc du livre in 1987.

Work

Mejjati's poetry is characterized by its emphasis on pure Arabic diction and original syntactic formation. He published poems in magazines, but only one book of poetry:Al Fouroussiya (Chivalry).

The Syrian critic Mohammed Mohi Eddine called Mejjati's poem Assouqout one of the most beautiful poems in the Arabic language.[1]

References

External links

• Poetry International web (retrieved Feb. 12, 2009)

Bibliography

• Al Fouroussiya (Chivalry), ed. Publications of the national council for Arab culture, Rabat, 1987
• Ahmad Al Maggati Poète d'avant-garde marocain, thèse de doctorat d'Etat soutenue à Aix-Marseille, 1988

---