Chante Abdellatif Laabi - l'etreinte du monde

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Born in 1942 in Fès, Abdellatif Laâbi was fourteen at independence, in 1956. In 1963, he took part in the creation of the Moroccan University Theatre. He then taught French in a high school in Rabat. In the 1960s, he took an active part in the magazine Souffles, to which several Moroccan left-wing intellectuals contributed, notably Tahar Ben Jelloun, Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine and Mostafa Nissaboury. The massacres of March 23, 1965 against a peaceful demonstration against an education reform led to his political commitment, first within the ranks of the PLS (Party for Liberation and Socialism), the former Moroccan communist party, then from 1972 as founder of the clandestine far-left movement Ila Al Amame. In January 1972, he was arrested and tortured and sentenced to ten years in prison. After eight and a half years, in 1980, thanks to an international campaign in his favor, he and some of his fellow detainees were released. Five years later, he left Morocco for France and developed a body of work spanning all literary genres (novel, poetry, theater, essay, children's books). Winner of the Ganzo Poetry Prize in 2008, the Goncourt Poetry Prize in 2009 and the Grand Prix de la Francophonie from the Académie française in 2011, Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan writer in French whose writing contains great humanity in a constant struggle for greater justice and humanity. A bridge-builder for poetry, he works tirelessly for genuine dialogue and for peace to exist between different cultures. Bernard Ascal has always practiced music, writing and painting. He published Le Gréement des os (poems) with Le Temps des Cerises in 2005, Le Cadre et le clou (workshop notes) with Rhubarbe in 2011 and Pas même le bruit initial (poems) with Gros Textes in 2014. In 2008, his oratorio Cahier d'un retour au pays natal was released, restoring the full poem by Aimé Césaire, then in 2010 the double CD Poètes de la Négritude (“Grand Prix” of the Académie Charles Cros).