A body of work attentive to human wounds, the silences of the past, and the fractures of the world.

A Scalpel-Sharp Pen

Rida Lamrini has published several novels and essays, cultivating a demanding passion for literature. An observer with a humanist sensibility, he develops a literary oeuvre that lucidly dissects the realities, silences, and paradoxes of his era, attentive to human relationships within Moroccan society.

Nearly Thirty Years of Writing

His literary journey began in 1998 with Le Maroc de nos enfants, published by EDDIF. Two years later, he published Les Puissants de Casablanca, followed by Les Rapaces de Casablanca, with Éditions Marsam.

This first period of his work was marked by a determination to look at Moroccan society through a personal, critical, and engaged lens, focusing on individuals, power dynamics, and the transformations of his country.

His work continued with Le Temps des Impunis in 2004, followed by Y a-t-il un avenir au Maroc, me demanda Yasmina in 2006, and L’Université Marocaine, Autrement in 2007. In 2009 came Les Chevaliers de l’Infortune.

In 2014, Rida Lamrini also published Le monde n’est pas facile à croquer… dans une chronique, reflecting another facet of his writing and his acute perspective on current events and society.

The Novelistic Fresco

Nearly twenty-five years after his literary debut, a new milestone opened with Tant que je peux te dire je t’aime, published by Éditions Afrique Orient in 2022.

This novel marked the beginning of a three-volume novelistic fresco, continuing with Aux portes des étoiles (published in 2024), and culminating with Les Méandres de l’Oubli, forthcoming in 2027.

Three novels, three stories, yet a single exploration of the human condition. Love, wounds, memory, oblivion, choices, and life's upheavals occupy a central place in this fresco.

What connects these books is not merely a story continuing from one volume to the next. It is also a gaze: that of a writer who, after long observing society and its transformations, turns increasingly toward individuals, their emotions, their fragilities, and their contradictions.