Youssouf Amine Elalamy

Youssouf Amine Elalamy (Arabic: يوسف أمين العلمي, born 20 November 1961 in Larache, Morocco) is a Moroccan writer, visual artist and professor of Media Studies and Communication at Ibn Tofail University.

[2] His 2015 novel Drôle de Printemps consists of 330 very short texts intended to correspond to the dynamics of the so-called Arab Spring as a chain reaction of events in several North African countries.

[2] In addition to literary texts, Elalamy created graphic works for his book Miniatures, a series of fifty short portraits and collages depicting a cross-section of modern Moroccan society, that was presented in an exhibition.

These include the musical adaptation of Paris mon bled, the exhibitions of his work Miniatures, and the project Un roman dans la ville, which he presented under the title Nomade in the form of an urban literary installation in Marrakech, Rotterdam, Cologne, Copenhagen and Rabat.

Elalamy received the prize of best travel account from the British Council International for his book Un Marocain à New York and the Moroccan Grand Prix Atlas 2001 for his novel Les Clandestins.