Mouloud Mammeri

Mouloud Mammeri was born on 28 December 1917 in Taourirt Mimoun, in the Djurdjura massif. Educated in Morocco and then in Paris, he was mobilised in the French army, afterwards taught literature in Algiers and went into exile in Morocco during the war of independence. The first president of the Union of Algerian Writers and an ethnologist, he published the poems of Si Mohand and worked to give Berber a modern lexicon. The banning of one of his lectures set off the Berber Spring in 1980. He died in a car accident on 26 February 1989, on his return from a conference in Morocco.

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• NovelLa Colline oubliéeMouloud Mammeri · 1952not translated into EnglishLiterature