Born in Fez, the ancient capital of North Africa, he took up writing at a very early age, penning strange poems that he published under the title *Rubrique mots diverTs* (1984), with illustrations by Roger Eskenazi, through Caractères in Paris, accompanied by a short preface by his philosophy professor, Emmanuel Lévinas. After his years as a high school student in Paris, his time at the Sorbonne, Nanterre in ’68, and Vincennes—another product of the ’68 generation—he felt he was reviving surrealism in a new way in his novel Suites à Robinson. In *Terre d’eutopie* (Sachewell, 2018), and in certain short stories, he was thus able to freely traverse places and eras, imaginary or otherwise. On the back cover of one of his books, we read: “Stories lived, never lived, always relived…” Go figure! Other published works: Dictionnaire des images reçues, 2018, illustrations by Véronique Durieux; Histoire de les raconter, 2019, Sachewell ed. But all the other manuscripts: Mots d’emploi; Bris; Collages; Fresques et Frasques; Satires groupées; Né dans le Neuf; L’ange tardif; Manuel d’amour et de suivre; Vocables révocales; Les judéens—he keeps them, perhaps to polish them further, ready for the years to come. And that novel he holds dear, La clef de sol, set between 1492 and 2030, between Seville, Paris, the Amazon, and the East. The author is a teacher of literature and French as a foreign language. In 1997, he founded a writing workshop in Paris called L’atelier des écrivants and organized painting and photography exhibitions in Mexico City and Paris. In 1995, he founded the IntercultureS 21 association for non-French-speaking adults.