Trafika Europe 6 - Arabesque

about the authors & works

Najat El Hachmi  Najat El Hachmi (born inMorocco, 1979) emigratedwithher family to the Catalonian region of Spain at the age of eight. Her novel The Last Patriarch (2008), dealing with themes of migration, won the prestigious Ramon Llull prize for Catalonian literature, and she has helped represent Catalonian literature at venues throughout Europe. The Foreign Daughter , her third novel, is steeped in the beautiful minutae of Catalan life and culture, in the context of a woman deeply examining and assessing what role cultural identity and otherness might play in navigating some of life’s larger questions. Translated from Catalan by Peter Bush.

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