Profile of Yassin Adnan

Yassin Adnan was born in 1970 in Safi, Morocco. In 1991 Adnan published two literary magazines: Aswat Muassira (Contemporary Voices) with poet Saad Sarhane and later al-Gharah al-Shiriya (Poetic Attack) with Saad Sarhane, Taha Adnan and Rashid Nini.

Adnan teaches English at a high school and holds the prizes of: Moufdi Zakaria (Algeria, 1991), of the Union of Writers in Morocco (1998) and the Buland al-Haydari prize for the young poet (Asilah, 2003). Adnan has written two collections of poetry and two of short stories and has his weekly cultural TV program Masharif on the 1st Moroccan TV channel.

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