His latest novel tells the story of Adam Sijilmassi a brilliant Moroccan engineer living a normal life in a Western world to which he can no longer relate. He ultimately chooses to go back to Doukkala, the land of his ancestors.

Subsequently, a series of adventures will unfold narrated in a burlesque and realist way that characterize the author’s style of writing

The Grand Prix Jean Giono, created in 1990, crowns the career of a French-language author who has mastered the art of the novel.

This is isn’t the first time Fouad Laroui ‘s work is awarded, he had already won the Goncourt Prize for his novel 'The Strange Case of pants Dassoukine', published by Julliard and was awarded the Great Medal of the Francophonie, an annual award established by the French Academy in 1986.