Albert Memmi

Albert Memmi was born on 15 December 1920 in Tunis, into a family of thirteen children whose father was a saddler. A pupil at the Lycée Carnot, he studied philosophy in Algiers, from which the anti-Jewish laws removed him, and was sent to a forced labour camp in eastern Tunisia. He resumed his studies at the Sorbonne after the war, taught in Tunis from 1951, then settled in France after independence. He taught sociology, notably at Nanterre, and wrote essays on the colonised, the Jew and the dominated. He died on 22 May 2020, aged ninety-nine.

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• NovelThe Pillar of SaltLa Statue de selAlbert Memmi · 1953Literature