Khalid Lyamlahy, born in Rabat, Morocco in 1986, is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Chicago, where he teaches North African literature. He completed a PhD in Francophone Studies at Oxford, and is the author of Nostalgic Rebels: Politics, Aesthetics, and Selfhood in Postcolonial Morocco (Liverpool University Press, 2025). His first novel, Un roman étranger, was published in 2017. Venice Requiem is his first translation in English.

"A profoundly poetic novel." - Tel Quel

Khalid Lyamlahy, born in Rabat, Morocco in 1986, is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Chicago, where he teaches North African literature. He completed a PhD in Francophone Studies at Oxford, and is the author of Nostalgic Rebels: Politics, Aesthetics, and Selfhood in Postcolonial Morocco (Liverpool University Press, 2025). His first novel, Un roman étranger, was published in 2017. Venice Requiem is his first translation in English.

"A profoundly poetic novel." - Tel Quel

Khalid Lyamlahy, born in Rabat, Morocco in 1986, is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Chicago, where he teaches North African literature. He completed a PhD in Francophone Studies at Oxford, and is the author of Nostalgic Rebels: Politics, Aesthetics, and Selfhood in Postcolonial Morocco (Liverpool University Press, 2025). His first novel, Un roman étranger, was published in 2017. Venice Requiem is his first translation in English.

"A profoundly poetic novel." - Tel Quel