He only began writing in 1980, at the age of 63, traveling back and forth between France and Morocco. He stated that, in spite of his long stay in France, he had devoted his entire literary life to Morocco. From 1999 until his death he lived in Rabat.[3][4]
There is controversy about his political stance; however, nothing has ever been corroborated. He was buried, according to his wishes, in the Jewish cemetery in Essaouira. He wrote in French.
Works
Parcours immobile (Maspero, 1983)
Abner, Abnour (La Pensée sauvage/Le Fennec, 1996).
Le café bleu. Zrirek (La pensée sauvage, 1999)
Mille ans, un jour (Le Fennec, 1990 – André Dimanche, 2002 (1986))
Le Retour d'Abou El Haki (La Pensée sauvage, 1990).
Jean Genet, Le Captif amoureux et autres essais (La Pensée sauvage/Toubkal, 1988 )
Aïlen ou la nuit du récit (La Découverte, 1983, réédité par André Dimanche, 2000)
Parcours immobile (Maspéro, 1980 puis réédité par André Dimanche, 2001) : Roman
Bou'Azza Ben'Achir, Cheminements d'une écriture (1997). 238 pages. ISBN2-7384-5217-5
Vogl, Mary B., 2003, "It Was and It Was Not So: Edmond Amran El Maleh Remembers Morocco," International Journal of Francophone Studies 6.2, 71–85.
"Taksiat," short story from the collection Abner Abounour by Edmond Amran El Maleh, reprinted with an English translated by Lucy R. McNair, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies/Sites, April 2007, Vol. 11, Issue 2. In same issue, an interview with Moroccan painter Yamou with reference to El Maleh.