Rachid Boudjedra

Rachid Boudjedra was born on 5 September 1941 in Aïn Beïda and received a traditional education in Algeria and Tunisia. He joined the liberation army, then studied in Spain, in Algiers and in Paris, where he took a degree in philosophy at the Sorbonne. A teacher of philosophy in Paris and then in Rabat, he later worked for the Algerian film office and co-wrote the screenplay of a film that won the Palme d'Or in 1975. From 1982 he wrote his novels in Arabic before returning to French. His pamphlets against Islamism exposed him in the nineties to threats from armed groups.

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• NovelThe RepudiationLa RépudiationRachid Boudjedra · 1969Literature