Rida Lamrini — Novelist and Essayist
From social questions to the more intimate territories of memory, filiation, and forgiveness.
Writing to See Differently
Since the late 1990s, Rida Lamrini has published novels, essays, and chronicles at the crossroads of social observation, fiction, memory, and reflection on human journeys.
His early books focus primarily on Moroccan society, its transformations, tensions, and power dynamics. Over time, his writing shifts further toward the intimate: family wounds, silences, filiation, forgiveness, and what people seek to pass on.
Nearly Thirty Years of Writing
His literary journey began in 1998 with Le Maroc de nos enfants, published by Éditions EDDIF. Several novels and essays followed, including Les Puissants de Casablanca, Les Rapaces de Casablanca, Le Temps des Impunis, Y a-t-il un avenir au Maroc, me demanda Yasmina, L’Université Marocaine, Autrement, and Les Chevaliers de l’Infortune.
In 2014, Le monde n’est pas facile à croquer… dans une chronique continued this perspective on current events, society, and human nature. The complete bibliography is presented on the Work page.
A Fresco Born Without Being Programmed
In 2022, Tant que je peux te dire je t’aime was published by Éditions Afrique Orient. With this novel opened, without his knowing it yet, what would become a novelistic fresco in three movements.
Aux portes des étoiles, published in 2024, extended this story by shifting the focus toward the quest for the father, transmission, science, and philosophy. Les Méandres de l’Oubli, forthcoming in 2027, opens the fresco to thriller, investigation, memory, and identity.
Three novels, three stories, but one driving force: understanding what wounds, silences, absences, and choices do to people.
What links these books is not merely an ongoing storyline. It is also a perspective: that of a writer who, after long observing society and its transformations, turns increasingly toward individuals, their fragilities, their contradictions, and what they still seek to heal.
Les Intouchables: A New Novelistic Territory
With Les Intouchables, Rida Lamrini opens a new standalone novel on contemporary Morocco. The plot takes the form of a thriller where an investigation branches into economic, financial, and criminal networks, power struggles, and individual destinies that ultimately converge.
His professional, economic, and associative background nourishes in the background his perspective on society, without blurring with his work as a novelist.
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