Background
Zrika grew up in the poor neighbourhood Ben Msik.
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Abdullah Zrika
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Career
His poetry is free, based on spoken language and unrivalled in contemporary Arabic literature in its spontaneity. At the age of twelve he wrote his first poems. In 1977, he published "Dance of the head and the rose".
Foreign the Moroccan youth, he represents the ideal of poetry, of freedom of living and expressing yourself.
Because of censorship Zrika spent two years in jail. Six of his poems were deemed morally dangerous.
In 1978, he obtained a degree in sociology. Besides a poet, Zrika is also a playwright.
المراه مع فرسين (The woman with the two horses)
مقبره السعاده (Graveyard of Happiness)
(published by Le Fennec in Casablanca)
His poems have also been published in magazins like: Esprit, Autrement, Refuge, Le croquant, Petite, and Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale. He worked on plays with Louis Sclavis, Luigi Cinqui, writing "He is like the theater".
