Yassin Adnan, a Moroccan writer born in 1970, is author of three books of poems,
Mannequins (2000),
a Rasif al-qiyama ('Resurrection Pavement', 2003) and
La akad ara ('I Can Hardly See', 2007). As well as poetry he has published two collections of short stories:
Man yusaddiq al-rasa'il? (2001) and
Tuffah al-zill (2006), and
Marakish: asrar mu'lana ('Marrakesh: Heralded Secrets', 2008), a literary text which attempts to outline the history of his home town, combining prose and poetry. He holds the prizes of Moufdi Zakaria (Algeria, 1991), of the Union of Writers in Morocco (1998) and the Buland al-Haydari Prize for the Young Poet (Asilah, 2003).
