Abdelhak Serhane

Abdelhak Serhane (born in Sefrou in 1950) is a Moroccan novelist writing in French.

Serhane grew up in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco, in the village Azrou.

He studied psychology at the University of Toulouse II and taught at the University Ibn Tofail in Kénitra, Morocco before he went to Canada to escape from the political oppression of the Moroccan government.

[1][2] Serhane has been a vociferous critic of the regime of Hassan II and has denounced the violent and oppressive nature of the government at that time in novels like Mesouda and Le Soleil des obscurs.

[3] He has taken position against the impunity of those who have enriched themselves thanks to the corruption of the Moroccan political system.