Éditions Le Fennec

Yasmina RHELJARI

It is said that Alexander the Great, as he deployed his immense army in a Kashmir meadow, set up camp before fighting. At dawn, a carpet of mauve flowers covered the ground even under the horses’ hooves. Faced with this dire omen, the 120,000 soldiers refused to fight and Alexander the Great, for the first time, had to bow to the victorious rudder. Ahraz, the founder of Al Kanz, harnessing the powers of these precious pistils, succeeds in becoming one of the richest businessmen in the country. The Mountain Orphan has come a long way, but it’s time for him to pass the torch. Who will be the one who will be chosen for the position of president of Al Kanz? Will the Safran Al Kanz become the best in the world? It is in La Safranière, a small village hidden in the Atlas Mountains where Ahraz was born that all these questions will be clarified, whatever the cost!

Yasmina RHELJARI runs a training firm in Rabat, her first novel “Le diner de trop” appeared in 2018. She is also a columnist at Vie Eco.

2020 - 280 pages - 13 x 20,5 cm - 98 DH / 12 € - ISBN : 978-9920-755-17-7

Ahmed AMENSOUR

The novel talks about a play written by a theater artist for a woman called Zahra, who is an activist of the February 20 Movement, and in the end, the latter will not play that role; Because she initially thought that the role was written for her, then she discovers that he wrote for another woman and wants to attribute it to her.
“I have never accepted to despair on the pretext of the futility of studying in a country teeming with the unemployed. Instinctively and decisively, I rejected the position of the unemployed whose fate depends on state policy.”
The disabled person who has no job but to participate in sit-ins and demonstrations that the graduate armies are fighting in the capital, in front of Parliament and in the streets of the capital.

Mohamed AMANSOUR is a novelist, critic, and university professor at the Faculty of Arts in Meknes. His novel experience belongs to the style of the new novel in Morocco, which in its experimental strategy deviates from the traditional novel. He has published several critical books, as well as two novels “Al Mouktafiaa” in 2004 and “Tears of Bacchus” in 2010, in addition to two collections of stories.

2019 - 160 pages - 13 x 20,5 cm - 85 DH / 13 € - ISBN : 978-9920-755-18-4

Yousouf AMINE ELALAMY

Inconsolable, a quarter of a century after the death of his father, the author decides to resuscitate him. He unearths his past to invent a future for it and put it back into the world. In his quest for a father, he does not hesitate to assume his identity, to wear his face as one wears a mask that reveals more than it hides. Here we find the author’s taste for reversals and invention, he who does not hesitate to predict the past and remember the future. Carried by a subtle writing, at the same time soft and biting, Even not dead is a captivating, moving, overwhelming story; a snub to death and a hymn to life.

Moroccan writer and artist Youssouf AMINE ELALAMY is the author of several novels: Un Marocain à New York, Les Clandestins (Grand Atlas Prize and Le Plaisir de Lire Prize), Paris mon bled, Miniatures, Oussama mon amour, Amour nomade; Funny spring. French-speaking author, he published in 2005 Tqarqib Ennab, a book in Darija (Moroccan Arabic) and in 1999 obtained the Prize for the best travelogue awarded by the British Council International for his writings in English. His books are translated into several languages.
“C’est beau la guerre” by Youssouf Amine Elalamy, has just been selected among the 10 finalist works of the 2020 edition of the Prix des 5 Continents de la Francophonie.

2018 - 114 pages - 13 x 20,5 cm - 80 DH / 13 € - ISBN : 978-9954-1-6831-8