An author of some repute, Fouad Laroui is an engineer who graduated from the famous Paris Ponts & Chaussées School in 1982, with a doctorate in economic science. He is a university lecturer in French Literature, poetry and scientific philosophy. He has penned some thirty books [novels, short stories, essays, poetry... ] in several languages, including Une année chez les Français [2010], L'insoumise de la porte de Flandre [2017].
He won the Goncourt Prize for the best short story in 2013, the Académie française Great Medal for French-speakers in 2014 and, by unanimous decision, the Jean-Giono prize the same year. Fouad Laroui has been fascinated by tbourida ever since he discovered it, as a child, at the great tribal gathering of Moulay Abdallah Amghar. By the deft touch of his pen he describes an abiding passion.
He won the Goncourt Prize for the best short story in 2013, the Académie française Great Medal for French-speakers in 2014 and, by unanimous decision, the Jean-Giono prize the same year. Fouad Laroui has been fascinated by tbourida ever since he discovered it, as a child, at the great tribal gathering of Moulay Abdallah Amghar. By the deft touch of his pen he describes an abiding passion.
