Rachida Lamrabet
(Morocco, 1970) is a fiction and theatre author, lawyer and teacher. She won the 2008 Flemish debut prize for her novel Vrouwland (Women's Country; 2007) about migrant youths dreaming of a better life. In 2006, her story Mercedes 207 was awarded the Kif Kif Literature Prize. Her short story collection Een kind van God (A Child of God) was published in 2008, followed by the novel De man die niet begraven wilde worden (The Man Who Didn't Want to be Buried), awarded with the Ultima, the Flemish state prize for culture. As in her debut, issues such as identity, religion, migration and the position of minorities play an important role. Her novel Vertel het iemand (Tell Somebody, 2018) deals with the life of a Berber boy and the deliberately concealed role played by Moroccan soldiers in the First World War. Lamrabet is a member of the writers' collective Fixdit, which aims to raise awareness of gender inequality in literature. She is a practice assistant in discrimination law at the Legal Clinic of the Law Faculty of the Ghent University and also teaches at the Odisee College in Brussels.
Past events
Leïla Slimani about her family trilogy 'The Country of Others'
Interview with the famous French writer and Prix Goncourt winner Leïla Slimani about her family saga set in France and Morocco. Interview: Rachida Lamrabet. Music: Nana Adjoa
Fixdit - about the legendary Nawal el Saadawi
Live podcast recording from writers collective Fixdit, about the legendary Nawal el Saadawi: writer, physician and feminist in 20th century Egypt.
Neverending Stories
Book talk show by ROSE Stories: in conversation about Neske Beks' essay collection 'Echo'.
The Language of my Heart - Tamazight
Three writers on what the spoken language of Tamazight or Berber means to them: Ahmed Essadki, El-Mahdi Acherchour and Rachida Lamrabet. Presentaton: Asis Aynan. In Dutch.
