Paul Frederic Bowles
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Paul Frederic Bowles 🇺🇸

بول بولز (Known as "Paul Bowles")
Expatriate Author, Composer, Ethnomusicologist of Moroccan Folklore
Born Dec 30, 1910 🇺🇸 New York, United States
Passed Away Nov 18, 1999 Tangier, Morocco
Lifespan 88 years old
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Archival Overview

American writer and composer who lived in Tangier for 52 years, author of The Sheltering Sky, and ethnomusicologist who recorded hundreds of hours of traditional Moroccan indigenous music for the Library of Congress in 1959.

Biographical Record

Paul Bowles settled in the international zone of Tangier in 1947, making the white city on the Strait his lifelong creative sanctuary. His classic 1949 existentialist novel The Sheltering Sky set in North Africa brought worldwide literary acclaim.

A passionate lover of Moroccan culture, Bowles undertook an arduous five-month field recording expedition across Morocco in 1959 sponsored by the Library of Congress, preserving fragile rural musical traditions. He also translated the oral tales of Moroccan authors including Mohamed Choukri and Larbi Layachi into English, mentoring generations of visiting writers.

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Final Resting Place

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Lakewood Cemetery (repatriated after dying in Tangier)
Lakewood, United States
GPS: 42.1400, -79.3300
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