Latifa Baka
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Latifa Baka is a Moroccan
author of novels and short stories
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Novel:
Short stories:
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
author of novels and short stories
Short Stories
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Novel:
- "De Depuis ce temps-là", Ministère de la culture, RabatRabatRabat , is the capital and third largest city of the Kingdom of Morocco with a population of approximately 650,000...
, 2005.
Short stories:
- In "Mediterraneans": Voices from Morocco" ( a quarterly publication, winter 1999), the 11th issue of a bilingual quarterly that showcases the most interesting new writing of Morocco in both English and French ( including short stories, poems and essays written originally in French, standard Arabic and Moroccan Arabic) Latifa Baka was presented by an intensely personal short story .
- In "Zapatos sin tacón", an anthology of Arab female writers, edited by Ami Elad-Bouskila, with stories by Hanan Al-Shaikh and Liana Badr, Latifa Baka contributed the title story. She is said to have a mordant style, faithfully representing the collection as an image and also graphically reflecting the content and message of the others. Baka's vibrant story - is about a group of female patients who escape from their hospital beds, leaping through a window (under the direction of "Patient No. 36, an anarchist"), in order to attend an evening of popular songs.
External links
- Centro Cultural al-Andalus http://centroalandalus.idoo.com/curribakahtm.htm (retrieved, Feb. 15, 2009)
- Literatura Marroqui http://www.literaturamarroqui.edu.es/autores/BAQA,%20Latifa%20(1964).pdf (retrieved, Feb. 15, 2009)