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Authors, books, publishers, magazines, and reading lists from and about Algeria
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Tahir Wattar
Tahir Wattar is a pioneer of the modern Arabic novel in Algeria. In addition to his many novels, he has also written several plays and short stories. ...
Mohammed Arkoun
Mohammed Arkoun is Emeritus professor at the Sorbonne, Paris, and Editor of Arabica: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. He is the acclaimed author...
Rashid Boudjedra
Rachid Boudjedra was born in Aïn Béïda in 1941. He was schooled at the Collège Sadiki in Tunis and fought for the FLN during the War of Independenc...
Louisette Ighilahriz
Louisette Ighilahriz (born 22 August 1936) is an Algerian writer, former Conseil de la Nation member, and a former member of the Front de Libération N...
Said Khatibi
Said Khatibi is an Algerian writer. He was born in 1984 and studied at the University of Algiers and at the Sorbonne. His books include the following ...
Daniele Djamila Amrane Minne
See also Djamila Bouhired
Danièle Minne (13 August 1939 at Neuilly-sur-Seine – February 2017) was one of the few European women convicted of assisting...
Fadhma Aït Mansour Amrouche
Marguerite-Fadhma Aït Mansour Amrouche (c. 1882 in Tizi Hibel, Algeria – July 9, 1967 in Saint-Brice-en-Coglès, France) was a poet and folksinger.
B...
Yasmina Khadra
Mohammed Moulessehoul (Arabic: محمد مولسهول; born 10 January 1955), better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra (Arabic: ياسمينة خضراء), is an Algeria...
Abdelhamid ben Hadouga
Abdelhamid ben Hadouga or Abdelhamid Benhedouga (in Arabic عبد الحميد بن هدوقة) was an Algerian writer, born on 9 January 1925 in Mansourah near Bordj...
Samir Qasimi
Samir Qasimi (Arabic: سمير قسيمي; born 1974) is a critically acclaimed Algerian writer.
He has published four novels:
The Loss of a Permit (2009)
A Gr...
Waciny Laredj
Waciny Laredj (Arabic: واسيني الأعرج, pronounced Wasini al-A'raj) (born 8 August 1954) is an Algerian novelist, short story writer and academic.
Bio...
Leïla Sebbar
Leïla Sebbar (born 1941) is a French-Algerian author.
Early life
Leïla Sebbar was born on 9 November 1941, in Aflou. The daughter of a French mothe...
Zohra Drif
Zohra Drif Bitat (Arabic: زهرة ظريف بيطاط, romanized: Zuhra Ḍrīf Bīṭāṭ, born 28 December 1934) is a retired Algerian lawyer, moudjahid (a militant of ...
Rowayat
In 2012, Rowayat روايات launched as a literary journal platforming the hybrid writer, focusing on E...
Rabia Djelti
Rabia Djelti (born 1954) is an Algerian writer, fluent in both Arabic and French. In 2002, for her poetry and novels, she was awarded the prize for Ar...
Khalida Toumi
Khalida Toumi (Arabic: خليدة تومي) (born 13 March 1958), aka Khalida Messaoudi (Arabic: خليدة مسعودي), is an Algerian politician. She was the Ministe...
Ahmed Taibaoui
Ahmed Taibaoui is a professor at the Faculty of Economics, Business, and Management Sciences at the University of Bouira in Algeria. He was awarded...
Mirzaq Biqtash
Mirzaq Biqtash (13 June 1945 – 2 January 2021) (Arabic:مرزاق بقطاش), Algerian writer and novelist. He published more than fifteen novels, translations...
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
ArabLit, ArabLit Quarterly, and ALQ Books are a translator-centered collective that produces a website, quarterly magazine...
Tahir Wattar
Tahir Wattar is a pioneer of the modern Arabic novel in Algeria. In addition to his many novels, he has also written several plays and short stories. ...
Mohammed Arkoun
Mohammed Arkoun is Emeritus professor at the Sorbonne, Paris, and Editor of Arabica: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. He is the acclaimed author...
