Friday, June 10, 2022 at 0:04 AM
Rabat- The writer and journalist Khalil Hachimi Idrissi signed and autographed, Thursday at the 27th International Publishing and Book Fair (SIEL) in Rabat, his collection of poetry entitled “Erratic Anthology”, recently published by Virgule Editions.
“I am doubly happy to participate in the presentation of this collection. Firstly because with this new work, Virgule Editions continues its tradition of publishing poetry, something that publishers rarely do today in Morocco and around the world”, declared to M24, the news channel in continuity of the MAP, Hamid Abbou, director of Virgule Editions, during this ceremony organized in the pavilion of the publishing house at SIEL in the presence of several personalities from the world of culture and the media.
“It is also a pleasure because the poet we are celebrating today, in this magnificent setting of the 27th SIEL exceptionally held in Rabat, is none other than Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, a great friend and a great poet whose poetic experience stands out for its uniqueness and refinement”, he underlined.
In the preface to this 156-page collection published in 2022, the writer Kebir Mustapha Ammi indicates that “there is anger and tenderness, in this erratic Anthology, there is this rage imbued with wisdom that trials knew how to forge and which carries within it the inalienable desire to live together in the web of a new humanity”.
“Khalil Hachimi Idrissi questions himself and questions us. He tries to understand before our eyes what this thing is called the world and which is why we are gathered there under the aegis of a destiny that spends too much time playing with improbable and often angry dice. . Khalil Hachimi Idrissi plays, him, with the chance and the verb”.
Author in 2005 of “Billets Bleus, Moroccan chronicles 1994-2000” published by Eddif, Mr. Hachimi Idrissi notably released “To conquer nothing” published in 2011 by La Croisée des chemins, then a collection of poems “Subterfuges ou les detours of rebellious rhymes”, in 2012 by Zanzibar editions and another entitled “Faith is only summoned on holidays”, published in 2017 by La Croisée des chemins editions.
Born in Casablanca, Mr. Hachimi Idrissi was editor-in-chief of Maroc Hebdo International, before launching the French-language daily Today Le Maroc (2001). He was also president of the Moroccan Federation of Newspaper Publishers and of the jury for the National Press Prize (2007). He is also President and Grand Officer of the Companions of Gutenberg-Morocco. Mr. Hachimi Idrissi is the Director General of the Moroccan Press Agency (MAP).