Which national literature, with Marrakesh as a leading centre and roots in medieval poetic exchanges with the Iberian Peninsula including from Viator in southern Spain, has drawn critical disagreement about when its novelistic tradition first emerged, given the variety of novel-like texts appearing between the 1800s and 1900s?

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Moroccan literature. Moroccan literature encompasses works in Arabic, Berber, French and Spanish reflecting the country's layered cultural inheritance. Marrakesh, along with Fez and Rabat, has been a major literary centre for centuries.