WRITER

Mohamed Choukri

1935 - 2003

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Mohamed Choukri (Arabic: محمد شكري, Amazigh: ⵎⵓⵃⴰⵎⵎⴻⴷ ⵛⵓⴽⵔⵉ) (15 July 1935 – 15 November 2003) was a Moroccan author and novelist who is best known for his internationally acclaimed autobiography For Bread Alone (al-Khubz al-Hafi), which was described by the American playwright Tennessee Williams as "a true document of human desperation, shattering in its impact". Choukri was born in 1935 in Ayt Chiker (Ayt Chiker, hence his adopted family name: Choukri / Chikri), a small village in the Rif mountains in the Nador province, Morocco. He was raised in a very poor family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohamed Choukri has received more than 138,009 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Mohamed Choukri is the 2,001st most popular writer (up from 2,030th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Morocco (down from 44th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Moroccan Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Sardines and oranges
Fiction anthologies & collections, Modern fiction, Fiction
2005
For Bread Alone
Authors, arab, Morocco, biography, Social life and customs
1974
Le temps des erreurs
1994
For bread alone
Childhood and youth, Arab Authors, Biography
1987
In Tangier
Tangier (morocco), description and travel, Africa, intellectual life, Authors, african
2009
Streetwise
Morocco, fiction, Fiction, biographical
2007

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mohamed Choukri ranks 2,001 out of 7,302. Before him are Ji Kang, Yehuda Amichai, Nicolás Guillén, Countess of Ségur, Jorge Manrique, and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. After him are Joseph Kessel, Eugène Marin Labiche, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, Horacio Quiroga, Saki, and Caterina Albert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Mohamed Choukri ranks 124. Before him are Jan Saudek, André Brink, Jerry Orbach, Jerry Fodor, Chaim Topol, and Tsutomu Hata. After him are Sergei Khrushchev, Richard Brautigan, Franco Citti, Lyudmila Chernykh, Djamila Bouhired, and Dominique Venner. Among people deceased in 2003, Mohamed Choukri ranks 87. Before him are Kinji Fukasaku, David Hemmings, André Claveau, Michael Kamen, Qusay Hussein, and Sébastien Japrisot. After him are Canaan Banana, Rik Van Steenbergen, Kalpana Chawla, Prince Carl Bernadotte, Gertrude Ederle, and Maurice Pialat.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Mohamed Choukri ranks 49 out of 264. Before him are Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi (1541), Margarita Lozano (1931), Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman (1297), Abbas El Fassi (1940), Idris II of Morocco (791), and Yusuf II, Almohad caliph (1197). After him are Abdelilah Benkirane (1954), Abu Inan Faris (1329), Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq (1212), Christian de Portzamparc (1944), Slimane of Morocco (1766), and Saïd Aouita (1959).

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Among WRITERS In Morocco

Among writers born in Morocco, Mohamed Choukri ranks 4. Before him are Fatema Mernissi (1940), Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944), and Daniel Pennac (1944). After him are Dunash ben Labrat (920), Driss Chraïbi (1926), Ahmed Rami (1946), Eva Illouz (1961), Malika Oufkir (1953), Muriel Barbery (1969), Katherine Pancol (1954), and Leïla Slimani (1981).

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