Hot Maroc
Yassin Adnan
Hot Maroc is a novel about the changing face of Morocco: about Marrakech and the effects of ruralisation, the university and its student movement, internet cafés and hackers, daily life and human nature, politics and journalism, and bizarre election campaigns in a country where people do not vote. It is about Rahhal Laâouina, the slow-witted coward who becomes a hero in his dreams and online, whether on facebook or the news site called "Hot Maroc".
Nomination
2017 Longlist
Yassin Adnan
Country of origin Morocco
About the author
Yassin Adnan is a Moroccan writer and broadcaster, born in Safi, Morocco, in 1970. Since his early childhood he has lived in Marrakech and for more than two decades has worked in cultural journalism. In 1991, he published the Contemporary Voices magazine and then Poetry Raid, which embodied the new poetic sensibility prevalent in Morocco in the early 1990s. Since 2006, he has researched and presented the weekly cultural television programme "Masharif".