The Melody of the Rabbit, 2023 Longlist

Mohammed Harradi is a Moroccan writer, born in Al Qunaitra, Morocco, in 1946. He has worked as a chief inspector for the National Ministry of Education, a lecturer in Education, and a researcher in the Centre for Educational Planning in Rabat. He has published five novels: The Bitter Almond (1980), Dreams of a Cow (1988), Rooster of the North (2001), Dante (2015), and Melody of the Rabbit (2022), which was IPAF-longlisted in 2023. He has also published a short story collection entitled The Cat’s Tail (1990) and a biography, Noubir Amaoui: On the Summit of a Mountain (1995).