Author · Algeria
Taos Amrouche
Died in 1976
Marie-Louise Taos Amrouche was born on 4 March 1913 in Tunis, the only girl among six boys in a Kabyle family from Ighil Ali, converted to Catholicism and settled in Tunisia. From 1936, she collected, with her mother, Fadhma Aït Mansour, and her brother Jean, the Kabyle songs handed down by her mother, which she presented in public in Fez in 1939. A scholarship holder of the Casa Velázquez, she met there the painter André Bourdil, whom she married, and settled with him in Paris in 1945, where she hosted radio programmes. Winner of the Académie du disque's Grand Prix in 1967, she died on 2 April 1976 in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire.
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- NovelJacinthe noireTaos Amrouche · 1947not translated into EnglishLiterature