Abdelfattah Kilito

Abdelfattah Kilito (; born 10 April 1945, in Rabat) is a Moroccan literary scholar and writer. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also written articles for magazines such as Poétique and Studia Islamica. Some of the awards Kilito has won are the Great Moroccan Award, the Atlas Award (1996), the French Academy Award (le prix du Rayonnement de la langue française) (1996), Sultan Al Owais Prize for Criticism and Literature Studies (2006) and Grand prix de la francophonie (2024).

Life

Kilito was born in 1945 in Rabat, Morocco. He was raised in the medina of Rabat. Apart from his native Moroccan Arabic, Kilito learned French from the age of six. He also studied German and was trained as a scholar of classical Arabic literature in the Faculty of Literature at the Mohammed V University, where he later became professor.