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| - Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, born in 1942 in Fes, Morocco.
Laâbi, then teaching French, founded with other poets the artistic journal Anfas/Souffles, an important literary review in 1966. It was considered as a meeting point of some poets who felt the emergency of a poetic stand and revival, but which, very quickly, crystallized all Moroccan creative energies: painters, film-makers, men of theatre, researchers and thinkers. It was banned in 1972, but throughout its short life, it opened up to cultures from other countries of the Maghreb and those of the Third World.
Abdellatif Laâbi was imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to ten years in prison for "crimes of opinion" (for his political beliefs and his writings) and served a sentence from 1972-1980. He was then forced into exile in France, just like his friend, and contributor to the "Anfas" journal, Abraham Serfaty, who after seventeen years in jail, was also exiled in France in 1991.
Laabi has lived in Paris since 1985, and since 1988, is a member of the Académie Mallarmé.
Laabi has been a defender of other writers who are persecuted for their writing, including Salman Rushdie. (en)
- Abdellatif Laâbi, né à Fès en 1942, est un traducteur, écrivain et poète marocain. Il a fondé en 1966 la revue Souffles qui jouera un rôle considérable dans le renouvellement culturel au Maghreb. Son combat lui vaut d'être emprisonné de 1972 à 1980. Il s'est exilé en France en 1985. (fr)
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