Abdellah Baïda

Abdellah Baïda is a French-language Moroccan writer and a professor at Mohammed V University in Rabat. His essays include *Les Voix de Khaïr-Eddine* (Bouregreg, 2007), *Au fil des livres* (Séguier & La Croisée des Chemins, 2011), and *Le Monde d’Edmond: Interviews and Perspectives on the Work of Edmond Amran El Maleh* (Agora, 2022). As an author of novels published by Marsam (Rabat), he is the author of *Le Dernier salto* (2014, winner of the Grand Atlas Prize in the “Students” and “Culturethèque” categories), *Nom d’un chien* (2016, shortlisted for the ADELF Prize in Paris), and *Testament d’un livre*, a finalist for the Grand Atlas Prize and the Orange Prize for Literature in Africa. In 2020, his short story collection *Les Djellabas vertes se suicident* was published. As a recipient of a creative writing grant from the Centre National du Livre (Paris), he published the novel *L’Irrésistible appel de Mozart* in 2022. In 2024, *Sacré personnage*, inspired by the life and work of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, won the Marrakech Youth Literary Prize and the Mohammed VI Foundation Novel Prize (2025). His latest novel, *My Kingdom for a Crematorium*, was published in 2026. In 2012, Abdellah Baïda was awarded the rank of Knight in the French Order of Arts and Letters.