Ahmed Bouanani

The filmmaker and writer Ahmed Bouanani (1938–2011) was born in Casablanca. When Bouanani was sixteen, during the final days of the colonial era, his father, a police officer, was assassinated—a tragedy that the artist returned to in his work for the rest of his life. Bouanani studied film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris for three years before returning to Morocco and going on to direct several classics of North African cinema. Most of his movies had their genesis in poems, and he published three collections during his lifetime, as well as the novel The Hospital, also appearing in English for the first time with New Directions. Never keen to publish, Bouanani left behind a trove of additional manuscripts.

Ahmed Bouanani

The filmmaker and writer Ahmed Bouanani (1938–2011) was born in Casablanca. When Bouanani was sixteen, during the final days of the colonial era, his father, a police officer, was assassinated—a tragedy that the artist returned to in his work for the rest of his life. Bouanani studied film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris for three years before returning to Morocco and going on to direct several classics of North African cinema. Most of his movies had their genesis in poems, and he published three collections during his lifetime, as well as the novel The Hospital, also appearing in English for the first time with New Directions. Never keen to publish, Bouanani left behind a trove of additional manuscripts.

Books by Ahmed Bouanani

  • The Hospital

    Ahmed Bouanani, Lara Vergnaud, Anna Della Subin

    Paperback, 2018

    A tour de force: an utterly singular modern Moroccan classic
  • The Shutters

    Ahmed Bouanani, Emma Ramadan

    Paperback, 2018

    This surreal poetry maps Morocco’s cultural history, as Bouanani hauntingly evokes all of the violence inflicted on his country
  • The Hospital

    Ahmed Bouanani, Lara Vergnaud, Anna Della Subin

    E Book, 2018

    A tour de force: an utterly singular modern Moroccan classic
  • The Shutters

    Ahmed Bouanani, Emma Ramadan

    E Book, 2018

    This surreal poetry maps Morocco’s cultural history, as Bouanani hauntingly evokes all of the violence inflicted on his country