Mohamed Zafzaf (Arabic: محمد زفزاف; 1945 – 13 July 2001) was a Moroccan Arabic-language novelist and poet.
He later left this job and moved to Casablanca, where he began to live a bohemian lifestyle and work as an author.
Zafzaf had his early short stories published in important Middle Eastern literary magazines, in countries such as Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt, which gained him a reputation as a writer across the wider Arab region.
Zafzaf joined the Writers' Union of Morocco in July 1968 and began publishing his own independent works in the early 70s.
Zafzaf was known for his bohemian style, and his ever-present long hair and grown beard earned him the title of the "Moroccan Dostoyevsky".