Abdelaziz Errachidi was born in Zagora (south of Morocco), in 1978. He is a writer and a journalist. He has published the novel
Nomads on the Cliff (Department of Culture, Emirates, 2006; second edition, House of Arab Publishers, Lebanon, 2008), as well as the collections of short stories
Alley of Death (Group of Novel Research, Morocco, 2004),
Childhood of a Frog (Union of Moroccan Writers, Morocco, 2005), and
Sands of Pain, House Faces (Saudi Arabia, 2007). His volume of essays
Foreigners at my Table was published by the Moroccan Ministry of Culture in 2008. He has received several prizes: the Union of Moroccan Writers’ Prize for
Childhood of a Frog, 2005; the Acharika Arabic Prize in the Emirates for
Nomads on the Cliff, 2006; the Sakyat Essawi Prize for his short story, ‘The Basket of Colours’, Egypt, 2006; and a writing scholarship for
Almawred Takafi, Egypt, 2007. He was also selected for an international residency in the Chateau de Lavigny, Switzerland in 2008, and in Camac, France, for two months in 2009.