# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fouad-laroui
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:41:08.223Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fouad-laroui"
name: "Fouad Laroui"
slug: "fouad-laroui"
description: "Fouad Laroui is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies at the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he studied engineering. After working shortly for the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga (Morocco), he moved to the United Kingdom where he spent several years in Cambridge and York. Later he obtained a PhD in economics and moved to Amsterdam where he started his career as a writer. He has published about twenty books between novels, collections of short stories and essays and two collections of poetry in Dutch. He has won several literary prizes, amongst which the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, the Prix Jean-Giono and the Grande Médaille de la littérature de l'Académie française."
tagline: "Moroccan economist and writer (born 1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fouad_Laroui-Nancy_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958-08-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.095358666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A4%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "فؤاد العروي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فؤاد العروى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fouad Laroui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouad_Laroui"
    title: "Fouad Laroui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouad_Laroui"
    title: "Fouad Laroui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouad_Laroui"
    title: "Fouad Laroui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouad_Laroui"
    title: "Fouad Laroui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouad_Laroui"
    title: "Fouad Laroui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1766736"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump