Abdelkader Benali (1975) belongs to the young generation of Dutch authors. He debuted in 1996, at the age of twenty-three, with his novel Wedding by the Sea. Since then, within a decade’s time, he has written a large and varied body of work, which comprises literary prose (novels and short stories), poetry, theatre, non-fiction and journalistic writing.

Benali was born in Morocco, but was raised and educated in The Netherlands. This explains the important place which ethnicity and, in particular, Islamic culture occupy in his earlier texts. Gradually, however, the shuttling between two cultures gives way to a more extensive problematic, though the author’s origins... >>>>>...