Rabat, March 18 -- On March 16, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award announced that the Moroccan author Bensalem Himmich won the literature award for his memoir "The Self: Between Existence and Creation." The book was published by Book Cultural Centre for Publishing & Distribution, in 2018.

The book is an autobiography through which Himmich discusses the intellectual stances he adopted throughout his career as a novelist. Himmich emphasizes the connection between one's existence and creation, the path that the person takes through struggles against cultural and existential matters.

Himmich is a former minister of culture and currently a novelist, poet, and philosopher who teaches at the Mohammed V University, in Rabat.

The Sheikh Zayed Book Awa...