Salim Jay



Salim Jay (born 30 June 1951) is a Franco-Moroccan novelist, essayist and literary critic living in France. 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 as a standard reference tool.

Biography
He was born on 30 June 1951 in Paris to a Moroccan father and a Romanian mother. Salim Jay lived in Rabat from 1957 to 1973.