For Bread Alone

For Bread Alone
	The cover of the novel
Author	Mohammed Choukri
Original title	الخُبْزُ الحَافِي
Translator	Paul Bowles
Language	Arabic
Genre	Autobiography
Published	1982
Publication place	Morocco

For Bread Alone (Arabic: الخبز الحافي, al-Khubz al-Hafi) is a controversial autobiographical work by Mohammed Choukri. It was written in Arabic in 1972 and translated into English by Paul Bowles in 1973.^[1] In 1980, it was published in French as Le Pain Nu in a translation by Tahar Ben Jelloun. The novel has been translated into 39 foreign languages^[2] and adapted into a French graphic novel by Abdelaziz Mouride [fr].^[3]

^ Tanoukhi, Nirvana (2003). "Rewriting Political Commitment for an International Canon: Paul Bowles's For Bread Alone as Translation of Mohamed Choukri's Al-Khubz Al-Hafi". Research in African Literatures. 34 (2): 127–144. ISSN 0034-5210. JSTOR 4618297.
^ "«الخبز الحافي» لمحمد شكري لا تزال حاضرة بقوة | الشرق الأوسط". 2020-08-04. Archived from the original on 2020-08-04. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
^ "A New Graphic-novel Adaptation of Mohamed Choukri's 'For Bread Alone'". ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY. 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2023-01-29.

[1] Tanoukhi, Nirvana (2003). "Rewriting Political Commitment for an International Canon: Paul Bowles's For Bread Alone as Translation of Mohamed Choukri's Al-Khubz Al-Hafi". Research in African Literatures. 34 (2): 127–144. ISSN 0034-5210. JSTOR 4618297.

[2] "«الخبز الحافي» لمحمد شكري لا تزال حاضرة بقوة | الشرق الأوسط". 2020-08-04. Archived from the original on 2020-08-04. Retrieved 2022-08-07.

[ArablitQuaterly-2020-3] "A New Graphic-novel Adaptation of Mohamed Choukri's 'For Bread Alone'". ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY. 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2023-01-29.

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