by Fouad Laroui · Julliard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782260054283
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«Chroniques de l'autre rive» is a book of chronicles and reflections by writer Fouad Laroui, published by Julliard in paperback (368 pages, in French).
In these brief chronicles, Fouad Laroui covers international current affairs and the Maghreb with irony and curiosity. The author praises human ingenuity and denounces stupidity; the result is texts that combine humor, social criticism, and reflection.
The volume brings together articles that Fouad Laroui published in the magazine Jeune Afrique and on the website Le360 between March 2016 and December 2018; the original edition appeared in 2019.
Work aimed at readers interested in contemporary Francophone literature, Moroccan society, and social criticism with humor.
Fouad Laroui is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies at the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he studied engineering. After working shortly for the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga (Morocco), he moved to the United Kingdom where he spent several years in Cambridge and York. Later he obtained a PhD in economics and moved to Amsterdam where he started his career as a writer. He has published about twenty books between novels, collections of short stories and essays and two collections of poetry in Dutch. He has won several literary prizes, amongst which the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, the Prix Jean-Giono and the Grande Médaille de la littérature de l'Académie française.
