Youssef Fadel (born 1949) is a Moroccan novelist and playwright. He was born in Casablanca. He was imprisoned by the government in the infamous Moulay al-Sheriff prison during the 1970s.^[1]

He has written several plays and novels. His debut play The Barber in the Poor District was turned into a film by Mohamed al-Rakab. He has written nine novels, including Hashish (winner of the Grand Atlas Prize) and A Rare Blue Bird that Flies with Me (shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize).