Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla
Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla is a noted Spanish scholar and translator of Arabic literature.[1] Since 2006, he has taught at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, but he has also taught at the University Abdelmalek Essaadi in Tangier, the Université Saint-Joseph in Lebanon, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha where he worked for more than a decade.
He has written a history of modern Moroccan literature entitled La literatura marroquí contemporánea. He is also the editor of a number of books of literary scholarship and criticism. He is the director of Memorias del Mediterráneo, a series of works of Arabic literature published in Spanish translation by Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo.
He served on the judging panel of the 2012 Arabic Booker Prize.
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