List of Algerian writers
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- Jean AmroucheJean AmroucheJean-Elmouhoub Amrouche was a French-language Algerian poet. Born to a Catholic family in Kabylie in Algeria, Amrouche emigrated with his family to Tunisia while still young...
(1907–1962) - Taos AmroucheTaos AmroucheMarie-Louise-Taos Amrouche was an Algerian writer and singer....
(1913–1976) - Abdelkader AlloulaAbdelkader AlloulaAbdelkader Alloula was an Algerian playwright. He was assassinated by Islamists.-Biography:...
- Zighen AymZighen AymZighen Aym is an Algerian writer and engineer. After graduating with an engineering degree in the USA in 1982, he went back to his native Algeria and worked as a maintenance engineer in the Sahara for Sonatrach, the Algerian National Oil and Gas Company...
- Augustine of HippoAugustine of HippoAugustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...
- Mohammed ArkounMohammed ArkounProfessor Mohammed Arkoun was considered at the time of his death to have been one of the most influential scholars in Islamic studies contributing to contemporary islamic reform...
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- Salah BenlabedSalah BenlabedSalah Benlabed is an Algerian architect, academic, novelist and poet. Formerly a professor of architecture at the University of Algiers, he has been based in Montreal for more than a decade...
(1950) - Malek BennabiMalek BennabiMalek Bennabi is a great Algerian thinker . He wrote about human society, particularly Muslim society with a focus on the reasons behind the fall of muslim society....
(1905–1973) - Latifa Ben MansourLatifa Ben Mansour-Biography:Having studied Linguistics at the École Normale Supérieure d'Alger, where she obtained her Ph.D. in the subject, Ben Mansour went on to teach it at the University of Paris III and communications at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers....
(1950) - Rachid BoudjedraRachid BoudjedraRachid Boudjedra is an Algerian writer and educator who has published numerous poems, essays and novels. Before 1982, these were generally in French, but since then he has concentrated on writing in Arabic. He was born in Aïn Beïda, Algeria, where he was active in the independence movement...
(1941– ) - Azouz BegagAzouz BegagAzouz Begag, is a French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS. He was the delegate minister for equal opportunities of France in the government of French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin till 5 April 2007...
- Farida BelghoulFarida BelghoulFarida Belghoul is an author of Algerian descent who was raised in France. Her novel Georgette! was published in 1986.-Bibliography:* Georgette! : roman. Paris: Barrault, 1986.* recent productions:REID...
- Yve-Alain BoisYve-Alain BoisYve-Alain Bois is an historian and critic of modern art. Yve-Alain Bois was born on April 16, 1952 in Constantine, Algeria.-Education:...
- Omar BelhouchetOmar BelhouchetOmar Belhouchet is an Algerian journalist who has been prosecuted by his government on numerous occasions. He publishes the daily newspaper El Watan , which he founded in 1990 after he and nineteen colleagues left the FLN government-owned newspaper El Moudjahid .-Journalism:After receiving a...
- Mohammed Benchicou
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- Albert CamusAlbert CamusAlbert Camus was a French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.Camus was awarded the 1957...
(1913–1960) - Mehdi CharefMehdi CharefMehdi Charef is a French film director and screenwriter of Algerian descent. He has worked on eleven films between 1985 and 2007. His film Le thé au harem d'Archimède was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival...
- Martianus CapellaMartianus CapellaMartianus Minneus Felix Capella was a pagan writer of Late Antiquity, one of the earliest developers of the system of the seven liberal arts that structured early medieval education...
- Hélène CixousHélène CixousHélène Cixous is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. She holds honorary degrees from Queen's University and the University of Alberta in Canada; University College Dublin in Ireland; the University of York and University College...
- Corinne ChevallierCorinne ChevallierCorinne Chevallier is an Algerian historian and novelist of pied noir descent. Her father, Jacques Chevallier, was mayor of Algiers.She was born in Algiers in 1935, where she has lived ever since....
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- Frantz FanonFrantz FanonFrantz Fanon was a Martiniquo-Algerian psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose work is influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism...
(1925–1961) - Nabile FarèsNabile FarèsNabile Farès was born in 1940 in Collo , Algeria, the son of Abdur Rahman Farès...
(1941) - Achour FenniAchour FenniAchour Fenni poet, translator and academician from Algeria having participated in several scientific, cultural and literary meetings in Algeria, North Africa, Europe, North America and South America.-Collections of poems in Arabic :...
- Mouloud FeraounMouloud FeraounMouloud Feraoun was an Algerian writer and martyr of the Algerian revolution born in Tizi Hibel, Kabylia. Some of his books, written in French, have been translated into several languages including English and German...
(1913–1962) - Fadhila El FaroukFadhila El FaroukFadhila El Farouk is a writer.-Biography:Fadhila El Farouk grew up in Constantine, Algeria, speaking Berber. She received her baccalaureate degree in 1987 and joined the Mathematics Department and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Batna for two years...
- Catherine FillouxCatherine FillouxCatherine Filloux is a French-Algerian-American playwright. She has received awards from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the O'Neill, the Rockefeller MAP Fund, and the Asian Cultural Council. In 2003 she was a Fullbright Senior Specialist in playwriting in Cambodia.Filloux's plays...
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- Yasmina KhadraYasmina KhadraYasmina Khadra is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul .-Biography:Moulessehoul, an officer in the Algerian army, adopted a woman's pseudonym to avoid military censorship...
(1955) - Kateb YacineKateb YacineKateb Yacine was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic dialect, and his advocacy of the Algerian Berber cause.-Biography:...
(1929–1989) - Koroghli Ammar
- Aïssa KhelladiAïssa KhelladiAïssa Khelladi is an Algerian journalist, novelist, playwright, and poet who has published books on the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, plays, poetry, and several novels, most notably Peurs et Mensonges and Rose d'abime. Both of these novels deal with the situation in contemporary Algeria. ...
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- Mouloud MammeriMouloud MammeriMouloud Mammeri is an Algerian Kabyle writer, anthropologist and linguist. Born on December 28, 1917 in Taourirt Mimoune Ait Yenni in Tizi Ouzou Province, Algeria; died in February 1989 near Aïn Defla in a car accident while returning from a conference in Oujda, Morocco.- Biography :Mouloud...
(1917–1989) - Leïla Marouane (1960–)
- Amar Meriech (1964)
- Arezki Metref (1952)
- Rachid MimouniRachid MimouniRachid Mimouni was an Algerian writer, teacher and human rights activist....
(1945–1995) - Ahlam MosteghanemiAhlam MosteghanemiAhlam Mosteghanemi is a notable Algerian writer born in Tunis, the daughter of revolutionary leader Mohammed Chérif. She is the first female Algerian author of Arabic-language works to be translated into English . Thus far, the first two of a trilogy have been translated...
- Malika MokeddemMalika Mokeddem-Biography:Malika Mokkeddem was born on October 5, 1949 in Kenadsa, a small mining town on the limit of the western desert of Algeria. She is the daughter of an illiterate nomad family who became sedentary. She grew up listening to the stories told by her grandmother, Zohra, and was the only girl...
- Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari
- Si MohandSi MohandSi Mohand ou-Mhand n At Hmadouch was a Berber poet from Kabylie in Algeria.-Biography:...
(1848–1905)
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- Leïla SebbarLeila SebbarLeïla Sebbar is an Algerian author, born on 9 November 1941 to the daughter of a French mother and an Algerian father. She spent her youth in colonial Algeria but now lives in Paris...
(1941) - Youcef Sebti (1943–1993)
- Jean SénacJean SénacJean Sénac Born of an unknown father in Béni Saf in the Oran region of Algeria, the "poet who signed with a sun", was murdered in Algiers on August 30, 1973. His murder remains unsolved. Besides his poems and writings, he was renowned for a long-running relationship and correspondences with...
(1926–1962) - Slimane Rahmani (1893–1964)
- Benjamin StoraBenjamin StoraBenjamin Stora is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family in Constantine, then in French Algeria, which left the country following its War of Independence in 1962. Stora holds...
- Boualem SansalBoualem SansalBoualem Sansal is an internationally acclaimed Algerian author.Boualem Sansal was born in Algeria in 1949. Trained as an engineer with a doctorate in economics, he began writing novels at the age of 50 after retiring from his job as a high-ranking official in the Algerian government...
See also
- List of African writers