Rabia Raihane
Origin: Morocco
Rabia Raihane is a Moroccan novelist and short story writer, born in Morocco in 1951. She is the head of the Moroccan Forum for Culture and the Arts, and the founder of the Safi Festival of Female Creativity. For two years, she was head of the Moroccan Writers’ Union. She has published eight short story collections, one of which, Women’s Rain (1999), won the Female Creativity Prize in the UAE. In addition to The Family House (2022), she has published two earlier novels, Ways of Loving (2013) and Aunt Um Hani (2020). Her work has been translated into Danish, English, French, German and Spanish.