Tahar Ouettar

Tahar Ouettar was born in 1936 in Sedrata, in eastern Algeria, into a Berber Chaoui family. Educated at the Ben Badis institute in Constantine and then at the Zitouna in Tunis, he published his first short stories in 1955. After independence he founded several weeklies, which the authorities suspended one after another, and was a supervisor for the single party, the National Liberation Front, until 1984. A communist and an atheist, and a defender of Arabisation, he founded the cultural association Al-Jahidhiya in 1989 and headed the national radio in the early nineties. He died on 12 August 2010.

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• NovelاللازTahar Ouettar · 1974not translated into EnglishLiterature