Serhane, Abdelhak (b. 1950). Moroccan Berber recorder of the bleakness of life in Azrou under French colonialism and after independence. In two outstanding novels, Messaouda (1983) and Les Enfants des rues étroites (1986), Serhane traces the brutal, illiterate reality of rural life while satirizing its transcription into an alien idiom via the Moroccan francophone novel developed for a foreign audience. A highly intelligent and principled writer, Serhane trained as a psychologist and obtained a teaching post at the University of Vemtra.
[Jackie Kaye]
