Tahar Djaout

Tahar Djaout was born on 11 January 1954 in Oulkhou, near Azeffoun, in Kabylia. After studying at the University of Algiers, he published a first collection of poems in 1975, then became a journalist and for several years headed the culture section of the weekly Algérie-Actualité, where he reviewed the country's writers and artists. A novelist from 1981, he founded the weekly Ruptures around 1992 or 1993, and edited it. He died on 2 June 1993, aged thirty-nine.

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• NovelThe WatchersLes VigilesTahar Djaout · 1991Literature