Mohamed Zafzaf

Mohamed Zafzaf (Arabic: محمد زفزاف; 1945 – 13 July 2001) was a Moroccan Arabic-language novelist and poet. (He is not to be confused with Mohamed Zefzaf, of Riffian origin, born in Tangier, Morocco, in 1957, a retired professor in the United States and the author of the children's book Maati in Belgium.).^[1] Zafzaf played a pivotal role in the development of Moroccan literature in the second half of the 20th century and, due to his contributions, came to be known by such titles as "the godfather of Moroccan literature", "the Moroccan Tolstoy", "the Moroccan Dostoyevsky" and as "our great author" among his Moroccan peers.^[2][3]