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Abdelkader Benali (Arabic: عبد القادر بنعلي; born 25 November 1975 in Ighazzazen, Morocco) is a Moroccan-Dutch writer and journalist.

When he was four years old, he and his family, of Berber background, migrated to The Netherlands and settled in Rotterdam, where his father worked as a butcher. When he was twenty-one his debut novel Bruiloft aan zee (Wedding by the Sea) appeared and was a huge critical and commercial success. It was translated into many languages. He received the Libris Prize for his second novel, De langverwachte ("The Long-Awaited").

In addition to novels and plays, Benali has published essays and reviews in respected newspapers and magazines including De Volkskrant, Vrij Nederland, De Groene Amsterdammer, Esquire and Algemeen Dagblad. Benali is an avid long-distance runner, his personal record being 2:52:19, achieved at the 2007 Rotterdam Marathon. He also wrote a book about his failed attempt to improve his best result, Marathonloper (Marathon Runner).

Abdelkader Benali has mastered Dutch, and speaks Berber and English. He is irreligious, despite his family's Muslim faith and tradition. He uses the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, which is often associated with the far-right, to destill his argument that immigration is a historical, natural and a positive social demographic trend.

Works (in English translation)

References

1. Benali, Abdelkader. "Biografie" (in Dutch). Abdelkader Benali. Archived from the original on 23 March 2009. Retrieved 9 May 2009.
2. Kist, Reinier. "Zie de schrijvers werken – Abdelkader Benali" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. Archived from the original on 14 June 2008. Retrieved 9 May 2009.
3. Benali, Abdelkader (24 May 2022). "Migratie gaat de wereld veranderen, van mij kan de omvolking niet snel genoeg gaan". Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 24 November 2022.

External links

• "I migrated to Europe with hope. Now I feel nothing but dread: As the Dutch ban the burqa, one of Holland's leading writers mourns the passing of a welcoming continent". Abdelkader Benali. The Observer. 3 October 2010.
• Europe's complex new fear of immigrants

• 1975 births
• Living people
• 21st-century Dutch novelists
• Dutch journalists
• Libris Prize winners
• Moroccan writers
• Berber writers
• Dutch people of Riffian descent
• Dutch people of Moroccan-Berber descent
• Moroccan emigrants to the Netherlands
• Writers from Rotterdam
• Dutch male novelists
• 21st-century Dutch male writers
• Dutch former Sunni Muslims