Souâd Bahéchar

Souâd Bahéchar is a Moroccan teacher, museum curator, and woman of letters, born in 1953.

Biography Born on in Casablanca, she studied art and archaeology at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Upon returning to Morocco, she settled in Tangier. She taught art history at the International Higher Institute of Tourism and was appointed curator of the Al Kasbah Museum, which houses archaeological and ethnographic collections. She later directed an art gallery, Tanjah Flandria, from 1990 to 1993, spent time in Germany, and returned to her homeland.

Concurrently, she dedicated herself to writing and eventually left her museum work to focus on literary creation. Her debut novel, Ni fleurs ni couronnes, received the Grand Atlas Prize in 2001.

Selected works 2000: Ni fleurs ni couronnes, novel, Éditions Le Fennec 2005: Le Concert des cloches, novel, Éditions Le Fennec. 2011: Casablanca, text accompanying photographs by Marco Bardon, Éditions Filigranes.