







The Most Famous
Writers from Morocco
Top 10 Moroccan Writers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Moroccans Writers of all time. This list of famous Moroccans Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Moroccans Writers.
- #1

Fatema Mernissi
1940 - 2015
HPI 69.5343 langsFatema Mernissi is a Moroccan feminist and sociologist who is most famous for her book "Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern...Read moreShow less
Fatema Mernissi is a Moroccan feminist and sociologist who is most famous for her book "Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society."
- #2

Tahar Ben Jelloun
b. 1944
HPI 66.8233 langsTahar ben Jelloun is a Moroccan writer and psychiatrist who is most famous for his novel, "The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon."
- #3

Daniel Pennac
b. 1944
HPI 65.2133 langsFrench author
- #4

Mohamed Choukri
1935 - 2003
HPI 64.3924 langsMoroccan author (1935–2003)
- #5

Driss Chraïbi
1926 - 2007
HPI 59.6323 langsMoroccan author (1926–2007)
- #6

Dunash ben Labrat
920 - 990
HPI 59.4718 langs10th-century Moroccan Jewish poet and grammarian
- #7

Eva Illouz
b. 1961
HPI 58.7216 langsIsraeli sociologist and university professor
- #8

Malika Oufkir
b. 1953
HPI 57.2716 langsMoroccan Amazigh (Berber) writer and former "disappeared"
- #9

Ahmed Rami
b. 1946
HPI 57.0018 langsMoroccan and Swedish writer
- #10

Muriel Barbery
b. 1969
HPI 56.1329 langsFrench novelist and philosophy teacher
People by Birth Decade
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Overlapping Lives
Which Writers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Writers since 1700.





