Salim Jay

Salim Jay (born 30 June 1951) is a Moroccan novelist, essayist and literary critic living in France. He was born in Paris from a Moroccan father and Romanian mother. He has written about 20 books, numerous essays and more than thousand newspaper articles.His "Dictionnaire des Écrivains marocains", published in 2005 by "éditions EDDIF (Maroc)" and "Paris-Méditérannée (France)" is a biographical dictionary of Moroccan writers who have expressed themselves in French language. The book has established itself already as a standard reference tool.