Henri Michel Boccara

Henri Michel Boccara, born in Tunis, has lived in Morocco for more then forty years. He studied at the Centre d’expression d’art dramatique of André Voisin, and then at IDHEC. He studied medicine but always remained involved in theatre and writing. He founded and continues to directs the Groupe des Neuf, for which he has written several plays shown in Morocco, and outside at events such as the Festival de Grenoble, and Points sur les I en Avignon. He is also a novelist (Itinérances, Traver-sées, Le plumier, Tunis-Goulette-Marsa, Au commencement) and writer of short stories (La corde d’Anamer, La pluie sur Aveiro). His characters are often migrants or exiles, stowaways rolled around by history, guided by their huge thirst for life.