Youssef Fadel Author

Award-winning Moroccan novelist and screenwriter Youssef Fadel was born in Casablanca in 1949. During Morocco’s ‘Years of Lead’ he was imprisoned in the notorious Moulay Cherif prison (1974–75). A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me is his tenth novel, and the final part in his modern Morocco series. He lives in Casablanca, Morocco. Alexander E. Elinson is an associate professor of Arabic at Hunter College of the City University of New York, and the translator of A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me by Youssef Fadel.