Hawad

Hawad was born in 1950 in the Aïr, in Tuareg country, into a family of nomads. As a child he learned mastery of speech by following his grandfather to political meetings; his grandfather's death marked for him the end of a nomadic world governed by its own laws. Having gone off into the desert, he was trained in Sufism by his maternal uncle. A poet in Tamajaght, which he writes in Tifinagh, he has invented a script he calls furigraphy, in which the signs become abstract graphics, and alongside this he pursues a body of work as a painter exhibited on several continents.

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• PoetryCaravane de la soifHawad · 1985not translated into EnglishLiterature