Author · Algeria
Mohammed Dib
Died in 2003
Mohammed Dib was born on 21 July 1920 in Tlemcen, in western Algeria. He was a schoolteacher, an accountant and an interpreter, then a journalist at Alger républicain and at Liberté, the organ of the Algerian communists. In 1959, the French authorities expelled him from Algeria and he settled in France, where he spent the rest of his life. The author of more than thirty novels, which moved from a realism close to naturalism to a more dreamlike writing, he received the Grand Prix de la francophonie in 1994. He died on 2 May 2003 in La Celle-Saint-Cloud.
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- NovelLa Grande MaisonMohammed Dib · 1952not translated into EnglishLiterature