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TaleLégendes et contes merveilleux de la Grande KabylieAuguste Mouliéras · 1893not translated into EnglishThe first major collection of Kabyle tales, published in the language of those who told them.Literature
PoetryCendresJean Amrouche · 1934not translated into EnglishThe first verses of a Christian Kabyle raised in Tunisia, separated from his village by distance and by the religion of his people.Literature
NovelJacinthe noireTaos Amrouche · 1947not translated into EnglishA young woman from the Maghreb in a Parisian boarding house of the thirties, where her difference becomes a fault.Literature
NovelLeïla, jeune fille d'AlgérieDjamila Debèche · 1947not translated into EnglishAn educated young Algerian woman escapes forced marriage and chooses to teach the women of the South.Literature
NovelThe Poor Man's SonLe Fils du pauvreMouloud Feraoun · 1950A Kabyle childhood in colonial Algeria, and school as the only way out of poverty.Literature
NovelLa Colline oubliéeMouloud Mammeri · 1952not translated into EnglishA mountain Kabyle community in 1939, when the war shakes an ancient world and its youth.Literature
NovelLa Grande MaisonMohammed Dib · 1952not translated into EnglishThe hunger and political awakening of a poor child from Tlemcen, in the year the war breaks out.Literature
NovelNedjmaKateb Yacine · 1956Four young Algerians and an elusive woman who embodies the country, in a narrative that refuses the straight line.Literature
NovelLe Grain dans la meuleMalek Ouary · 1956not translated into EnglishA vendetta in a Kabyle village before the conquest, where the law of blood governs everything that happens.Literature
NovelJe t'offrirai une gazelleMalek Haddad · 1959not translated into EnglishA love story set in the Sahara, written in Paris during the Algerian War, and the exile who composes it.Literature
CinemaOur AlgeriaDjazaïrounaDjamel Chanderli · 1961Newsreel and guerrilla footage assembled to plead the Algerian cause before the United Nations, in the midst of the war.Cinema
CinemaSo Young a PeaceUne si jeune paixJacques Charby · 1965In barely liberated Algeria, war orphans replay among themselves the conflict that scarred them.Cinema
NovelLe MuezzinMourad Bourboune · 1968not translated into EnglishA veteran back from war and from the asylum settles his scores with the confiscated revolution.Literature
NovelThe RepudiationLa RépudiationRachid Boudjedra · 1969A son settles accounts with his father, his family and religion in Algeria in the first years of independence.Literature
CinemaLes Hors-la-loiTewfik Farès · 1969The resistance of the Aurès to the colonial order, filmed as a western, from the outlaw of honour to the fighter.Cinema
NarrativeLe Village des asphodèlesAli Boumahdi · 1970not translated into EnglishAn Algerian childhood in a small town of the Titteri, from the thirties to the fifties, told without inventing anything.Literature
NovelA Passenger from the WestUn passager de l'OccidentNabile Farès · 1971A meeting with a Black American writer sends an Algerian exile back to his own history.Literature
CinemaThe Opium and the StickL'Opium et le BâtonAhmed Rachedi · 1971The years of armed struggle seen from a Kabyle village that has rallied to the maquis, and that the French army wants to break.Cinema
CinemaPatrouille à l'EstAmar Laskri · 1971The war of liberation seen through a single mission, long and uncertain, entrusted to a handful of fighters.Cinema
CinemaViva Didou!Tahia ya DidouMohamed Zinet · 1971A tourist commission on Algiers that has become a stroll in which the memory of the war resurfaces without warning.Cinema
Novelريح الجنوبAbdelhamid Benhedouga · 1971not translated into EnglishA student refuses the husband her father intends for her, in a village of independent Algeria.Literature
Poetryإلياذة الجزائرMoufdi Zakaria · 1972not translated into EnglishThe entire history of Algeria, from the Numidian kingdoms to independence, set in a thousand lines of verse to be recited in public.Literature
CinemaNouaAbdelaziz Tolbi · 1972The poverty of a peasant community in the Aurès on the eve of the uprising, where a peasant woman is promised to a man of property.Cinema
CinemaLe CharbonnierMohamed Bouamari · 1972Algeria in the seventies, seen through a man whose trade is disappearing and his wife, who finds work.Cinema
CinemaInspector Tahar's HolidayLes Vacances de l'inspecteur TaharMoussa Haddad · 1972A vain policeman and his assistant, comic heroes of Algerian cinema, on a holiday that turns into an investigation.Cinema
PoetryMer ouverteHamid Tibouchi · 1973not translated into EnglishThe first poems of a poet and painter of young Algerian poetry written in French, in the year of the death of the man who defended it.Literature
NovelاللازTahar Ouettar · 1974not translated into EnglishThe armed struggle seen from a countryside in the East, and the hatreds that tear the fighters themselves apart.Literature
CinemaL'Évasion de Hassan TerroMustapha Badie · 1974The fighting of 1957 in the capital taken up by comedy, with a naïf from the Casbah who is believed to be the leader of the resistance.Cinema
CinemaZone interditeAhmed Lallem · 1974An Algerian village between the repression of 1945 and the insurrection, in a film that mixes narrative and documents.Cinema
CinemaChronicle of the Years of FireChronique des années de braiseMohammed Lakhdar-Hamina · 1975From the droughts of the thirties to the insurrection of 1954, the history of Algeria seen at the level of a peasant thrown onto the roads by poverty.Cinema
CinemaOmar GatlatoMerzak Allouache · 1976The ordinary youth of Algiers, its chatter, its music and its desires, filmed far from the war and its heroes.Cinema
CinemaLeïla et les autresSid Ali Mazif · 1977A schoolgirl whom they want to marry off and a woman worker who demands to be treated as an equal, in Algiers in the mid-seventies.Cinema
CinemaThe Nouba of the Women of Mount ChenouaLa Nouba des femmes du mont ChenouaAssia Djebar · 1977The memory of the peasant women of the Chenoua, recorded on tape and put into images between fiction and documentary.Cinema
CinemaNahlaFarouk Beloufa · 1979Beirut seen by an Algerian journalist as Lebanon enters fifteen years of war, and what becomes of the Arab idea.Cinema
NovelSherazadeShérazade, 17 ans, brune, frisée, les yeux vertsLeïla Sebbar · 1982The wanderings of a teenage runaway, a child of Algerian immigration, in Paris in the early eighties.Literature
CinemaHassan TaxiMohamed Slim Riad · 1982Rouiched's popular character put back behind the wheel of an Algiers taxi, twenty years after independence.Cinema
NarrativeLe Vieux de la montagneHabib Tengour · 1983not translated into EnglishOmar Khayyam, a vizier and the founder of the Assassins, friends in their youth, reread from Algeria in 1980.Literature
NovelLes Bandits de l'AtlasAzzedine Bounemeur · 1983not translated into EnglishThe poverty and revolt of the peasants of the Atlas mountains, at the height of the colonial era, long before 1954.Literature
CinemaHistoire d'une rencontreBrahim Tsaki · 1983Two deaf children, an oil site in the desert, and a film with almost no dialogue.Cinema
CinemaLes Folles Années du twistMahmoud Zemmouri · 1983The last two years of the war seen from a small town in the Mitidja, at the level of two young people who want no part of either side.Cinema
NovelShattered VisionRegard blesséRabah Belamri · 1987A teenager who loses his sight just as his country frees itself, in the heart of the Sétif region.Literature
NovelThe Honor of the TribeL'Honneur de la tribuRachid Mimouni · 1989A forgotten village that the new regime wants to modernise at a forced pace, told by an old man who keeps its memory.Literature
CinemaLe ClandestinBenamar Bakhti · 1989A handful of travellers crammed into an unlicensed taxi on the road to the capital, before the month of fasting.Cinema
CinemaThe CitadelLa CitadelleMohamed Chouikh · 1989A tragic farce in a village where polygamy and walls separate men from women.Cinema
CinemaAïla ki nassAmar Tribèche · 1990A modest family from Algiers will do anything to buy a car and be like everyone else.Cinema
NovelThe WatchersLes VigilesTahar Djaout · 1991An inventor grappling with bureaucracy and the mistrust of veterans, in Algeria at the end of the eighties.Literature
NovelThe Bridges of Constantineذاكرة الجسدAhlam Mosteghanemi · 1993A former fighter turned painter in exile, his city of Constantine and a love that merges with the country itself.Literature
CinemaWoman as the DevilLe Démon au fémininHafsa Zinaï-Koudil · 1994An exorcism inflicted on a woman by fundamentalists, brought to the screen at the beginning of the black decade.Cinema
NarrativeUn été de cendresAbdelkader Djemaï · 1995not translated into EnglishThe rising terror of the nineties, seen from the cramped quarters of a banished minor official.Literature
CinemaMachahoBelkacem Hadjadj · 1995A mountain tale in Kabyle: a peasant saves a stranger from the snow, and the honour of his house is thereby at stake.Cinema
CinemaThe Forgotten HillLa Colline oubliéeAbderrahmane Bouguermouh · 1996The youth of a Kabyle village during the last world war, brought to the screen in its own language.Cinema
NovelAu commencement était la merMaïssa Bey · 1996not translated into EnglishA hidden love on an Algiers beach during the black decade: Maïssa Bey's first novel.Literature
CinemaLa Montagne de BayaAzzedine Meddour · 1997The refusal of a Kabyle widow: she turns down the compensation offered for her husband's death, from which her village would benefit.Cinema
NovelMorituriYasmina Khadra · 1997An honest superintendent in civil-war Algiers: a dark crime novel by Yasmina Khadra.Literature
NovelLe Serment des barbaresBoualem Sansal · 1999not translated into EnglishTwo murders in the suburbs of Algiers and a stubborn old policeman: Boualem Sansal's first novel.Literature