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About Said Yaktine
- Said Yaktine (born 1955) is a Moroccan writer and literary critic.
- He was born in Casablanca.
- He obtained a PhD from the Mohammed the Fifth University in Rabat, and has worked as an academic ever since.
- He has published more than a dozen books on various aspects of Arabic literature and culture. Yaktine won the foremost literary prize in Morocco in 1989 and 1997.
- He won the Abd al-Hamid Shufan Prize (Jordan) in 1992.
- He supervises the Novels of Time series issued by Time Publications in Rabat.
- He served on the judging panel of the 2011 Arabic Booker Prize.
- He won the 2016 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Literary and Art Criticism category for Al-Fikr al-Adabi al-‘Arabi (Arabic Literary Thought).
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