Latifa Baqa

لطيفة باقا

Latifa Baqa is a feminist, human rights activist, and short story writer. She has published three collections and several of her individual stories have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Turkish. Baqa was born in Salé, Morocco.

Her Instagram account: instagram.com

Date of birth : 1964

Country of birth: Morocco

Country of residence: Morocco

Publisher(s): Editions Toubkal

Selected bibliography

غرفة فرجينيا وولف, Virginia Woolf’s Room*, Dar Toubkal, Morocco, 2014
منذ تلك الحياة, Since That Life*, Moroccan Ministry of Culture Publications, Morocco, 2005
ما الذي نفعله, What Are We Doing?*, Moroccan Writers Union Publications, Morocco, 1992

*Working title

Short stories translations:

German: Midad – Das deutsch-arabische Stadtschreiber-Projekt, Palmyra Verlag, 2007
English: Adam’s Apple (text available online), The Common, Issue 21, 2021. Trans. by Nariman Youssef

Press

I Will Be in the Place You Least Expect to Find Me: 10 Questions with Latifa Baqa by The Common, November 2021

Prizes and awards

Young Readers Book Award, for Virginia Woolf’s Room, Morocco, 2017
Moroccan Writers’ Union Award for Young Writers, for What Are We Doing?, 1992

Book(s) featured on this site

Virginia Woolf’s Room

غرفة فيرجينيا وولف

Written by

Latifa Baqa

Nine short stories that bring Virginia Woolf to Morocco

Published in 2014

by Editions Toubkal

(Morocco)

Reviewed by Nariman Youssef

Latifa Baqa

Selected bibliography

Press

Prizes and awards

Book(s) featured on this site

Virginia Woolf’s Room