Ismail Ghazali
Morocco
Creative and Critical Writings - 2025
Ismail Ghazali is a Moroccan writer born in 1977. He is the author of the short story collections Honey of the Storks (2011), which won the Al-Tayeb Salih International Award for Creative Writing in Khartoum, and Drunk on a Bicycle (2022), which was shortlisted for the 2023 Al-Multaqa Prize in Kuwait. He has also authored two novels: The Season of Pike Fishing (2013), which was longlisted for the the Arabic Booker in 2014, and Cats of the Archipelago (2020), which won the Morocco Book Award in 2021.