Rue du Retour

His magisterial prose and poetry have won Abdellatif Laâbi successively Frances Prix Goncourt and the Grand Prix de la Francophonie from the Académie Française. Rue du Retour brings to the English reader the full drama and intensity of the poets thought and words in this account of his return to life and hope after torture and then more than eight years in a Moroccan prison. He now lives in exile in Paris but is honoured in his home country of Morocco in France and throughout the Maghreb as a towering literary figure --combining poetry politics translation fostering creativity and younger talents male and female in Arabic and in French.