The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

FOUAD LAROUI was born in 1958 in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies in the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris), where he studied engineering. After having worked in the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga (Morocco), he moved to the United Kingdom where he received a PhD in Economics, and moved to the Netherlands where he currently teaches econometrics and environmental science at the University of Amsterdam. In addition, he is devoted to writing: fiction in French, poetry in Dutch, academic and nonfiction work in English. He has published over twenty novels and collections of short stories, poetry, and essays, and is a literary chronicler for the weekly magazine Jeune Afrique and Economia Magazine, and the French-Moroccan radio Médi1. The Curious Case of Doussakine’s Trousers won Laroui his first Prix Goncourt for the short story. Deep Vellum will publish his most recent, Grand Prix Jean Giorno-winning novel The Tribulations of the Last Sjilmassi—his first in English — in 2017.