Khalid Boudou

(Tamsamane, Morocco, 1974) has lived in Tiel for most of his life. – which he consequently calls Tiel Aviv. He won the El Hizjra Literature Prize in 1998 with the story Stemmendans (Dance of the Voices). His first novel Het schnitzelparadijs (Schnitzel paradise) appeared in 2001. In this astonishing debut the lifes of young Moroccans in the Netherlands are meticulously descibed. In 2002 Boudou won the 'Gouden Ezelsoor' prize with this novel. It has been translated into Italian, English and German. The film-rights have already been sold. Khalid Boudou was editor-in-chief of the Moroccan youth magazine ATARIK.NL, and now works as a columnist for the Algemeen Dagblad (Dutch national newspaper).
Source: Vassallucci, 2002.