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Mohammed Dib
Writing
01 Jan 1920
† 02 May 2003
Tlemcen, Algeria
Biography
Mohammed Dib was born in 1920 in western Algeria in Tlemcen, a hometown to which he paid homage in his famous trilogy: La Grande Maison (1952), L’Incendie (1954) and Le Métier à tisser (1957). A schoolteacher for a time, then an accountant, translator, journalist at “Alger Républicain” and for the Communist Party organ “Liberté”, he was finally expelled from Algeria in 1959. He settled in France and began his literary career. He was the first Maghreb writer to receive, in 1994, the Grand Prix d...
Also Known As
محمّد ديب
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