Rachida Lamrabet

Rachida Lamrabet (born 1970) is a Moroccan-born Belgian writer and lawyer writing in Dutch.

A native of the Rif region, she came to Belgium with her parents in 1972. Lamrabet until recently worked as a lawyer for the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism. Her first novel ''Vrouwland'' (Woman Country), published in 2007, received the Flemish . In 2006, her story "‘Mercedes 207" was awarded the Kleur de kunst! (Colour the arts!) prize by ; it was included in the anthology ''Kif Kif. New Voices from Flanders''.

Her writing has appeared in ''Banipal'', a magazine dedicated to contemporary Arab literature. Provided by Wikipedia