Habib Tengour

Habib Tengour, born on 29 March 1947 in Mostaganem, left Algeria in 1959 with his father, a nationalist activist who taught Arabic and had learned plumbing in Nantes to escape prosecution. He grew up in a workers' hostel in France, took a degree in sociology there, returned to do his national service and taught at the University of Constantine. An anthropologist, he defended a thesis on the traditional space of the Beni Zeroual and published a manifesto of Maghrebi surrealism. He divides his time between the two countries, and received the European Dante Prize in 2016 and the Benjamin Fondane Prize in 2022.

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• NarrativeLe Vieux de la montagneHabib Tengour · 1983not translated into EnglishLiterature