Poet

Boujema El Aoufi

(Morocco, 1961)

Biography

Boujema El Aoufi was born in 1961 in Taza, Morocco. He is a poet, translator, and art critic. He began writing and publishing poems and articles in 1986. His early writings drew a lot on visionary and mythological material, but he later tried to depart from this tendency, and assume a “new poetry” posture characterized mainly by a concern with ordinary language, and everyday life.

El Aoufi is one of the essential voices in modern Moroccan poetry. He is not only a skillful poet and critic, but also an active and organic intellectual with a charismatic touch about him. He excels in organizing and managing poetry events, and is thus one of the most up-to-date knowledgeable people about literary life in modern-day Morocco. In 2001 he received the Shariqa award for Arab creative writing, offered by the ministry of culture and communication in UAE.

El Aoufi is a member of both the Union of Moroccan Writers, and the House of Poetry in Morocco. He published two books of poetry, Bayadat Shayiqa, Shariqa 2001, and Asdiqa’Yughadiruna Hunjurati, Rabat 2001.

Poems

POEM\'S DREAM PORTRAIT OF RAIN SILENCED POEMS EULOGIES FOR SYLVIA PLATH THE PHANTOM OF THE HOUSE ON THE MOUNTAIN

Poems

Poems of Boujema El Aoufi

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Boujema El Aoufi

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Poems

Poem’s dream

Portrait of rain

Silenced poems

Eulogies for Sylvia Plath

The phantom of the house on the mountain

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