WRITER

Driss Chraïbi

1926 - 2007

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Driss Chraïbi (Arabic: إدريس الشرايبي; July 15, 1926 – April 1, 2007) was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often perceived as semi-autobiographical.Born in El Jadida and educated in Casablanca, Chraïbi went to Paris in 1945 to study chemistry before turning to literature and journalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Driss Chraïbi has received more than 51,822 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Driss Chraïbi is the 3,649th most popular writer (down from 3,594th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Morocco (down from 76th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Moroccan Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 52k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

La civilisation, ma mère!..
French language, Readers, Women
1972
L' inspecteur Ali
Fiction, Married people, Scots
1991
Une enquête au pays
1981
Le passé simple
1954
Heirs to the past
Fiction, Culture conflict, Moroccans
Succession ouverte (1962, Heirs to the Past) is a story of Ferdi Driss, who returns to Morocco for his father's funeral. Driss has spent sixteen years in France, but now re-establishes his relations with his mother and brothers. Gradually Driss realizes how old family values have given way to the ideas of the West. "Remember, Driss? Would any of us have dared to start dinner before he got back, whether it was after midnight or dawn? You remember, don't you?". The author Driss Chraïbi (1926-2007) is a French-Moroccan novelist, considered to be the father of the modern Moroccan novel. Chraïbi's work drew heavily on his own life. Central theme in his novels was the clash between different cultures, the East and the West, Arab and French. Chraïbi's range of style changes from epic to comedy. He was one of the pioneers of Maghrebian writers to explore the oppression of women and children in an Islamic, patriarchal society.
1971
Succession ouverte
1962

Page views of Driss Chraïbis by language

Over the past year Driss Chraïbi has had the most page views in the with 18,979 views, followed by English (7,688), and Arabic (5,419). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hungarian (55.78%), Southern Azerbaijani (55.19%), and Kurdish (Sorani) (46.10%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Driss Chraïbi ranks 3,649 out of 7,302. Before him are Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, Lillian Hellman, Siegfried Sassoon, Ghada al-Samman, John Ashbery, and Felix Timmermans. After him are Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Samih al-Qasim, Otfrid of Weissenburg, Farrukhi Sistani, Ilya Ilf, and Johan Herman Wessel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Driss Chraïbi ranks 243. Before him are Salahuddin of Selangor, K. D. Jadhav, Heinz Kwiatkowski, Baltazar, Julie Adams, and Salvador Jorge Blanco. After him are Richard Yates, Fernando J. Corbató, Theo Adam, Janet Asimov, Heriberto Herrera, and Stanley Cavell. Among people deceased in 2007, Driss Chraïbi ranks 195. Before him are Toulo de Graffenried, Angelo Felici, Ken McGregor, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Kirill Lavrov, and Luis Herrera Campins. After him are Mariano Gonzalvo, Vlatko Pavletić, Theodore Maiman, Walter Kempowski, Néstor Rossi, and Mark St. John.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Driss Chraïbi ranks 81 out of 264. Before him are Ibn 'Idhari (1300), Yves Lacoste (1929), Mustapha Hadji (1971), Dunash ben Labrat (920), Saadeddine Othmani (1956), and Dominique Mamberti (1952). After him are Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco (1970), Gad Elmaleh (1971), Noureddine Naybet (1970), Hicham El Guerrouj (1974), Alain Souchon (1944), and Philippe Barbarin (1950).

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Among WRITERS In Morocco

Among writers born in Morocco, Driss Chraïbi ranks 6. Before him are Fatema Mernissi (1940), Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944), Daniel Pennac (1944), Mohamed Choukri (1935), and Dunash ben Labrat (920). After him are Ahmed Rami (1946), Eva Illouz (1961), Malika Oufkir (1953), Muriel Barbery (1969), Katherine Pancol (1954), and Leïla Slimani (1981).

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