Driss Chraïbi (Arabic: إدريس الشرايبي; July 15, 1926 – April 1, 2007) was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often perceived as semi-autobiographical.

He viewed himself as an anarchist, writing on issues such as immigration, patriarchy and the relation between the west and the Arab world Driss Chraïbi was born to a merchant family in French Morocco but was later raised in Casablanca.

[3] He produced programmes for France Culture, frequented poets, taught Maghrebian literature at Laval University in Quebec and devoted himself to writing.

He became known through his first two novels, Le passé simple (1954), whose depiction of a young man's revolt against traditional society generated controversy in Morocco during its struggle for independence, and its counterpoint Les boucs (1955) a ferocious attack on the treatment of North African immigrants in France.

The writer, in exile in France, went beyond the revolt against his father and established a new dialogue with him beyond the grave in Succession ouverte ( 1962), translated as Heirs to the Past.

Driss Chraïbi was a Moroccan author, he published a number of novels which were written prior to and after Moroccos independence from colonial rule.

Chraïbi's most famous work was his debut novel Le Passé simple, published in 1954 at the heart of the fight for independence.

Its English translation by Hugh Harter The Simple Past, was reissued in 2020 by NYRB Classics, with an introduction by Adam Shatz.