Malika Moustadraf

Malika Moustadraf (1962–2006) was a preeminent arabophone Moroccan writer. She died of kidney disease at the age of forty-four, leaving behind a novel (Wounds of the Soul and the Body) and a collection of short stories (Trente-Six), which takes its name from the psychiatric wing of the Casablanca hospital. She is celebrated for writing about life in the margins, and the female body and experience.