Algerian writer
Mohammed Dib | |
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Early photo of Dib | |
| Born | (1920-07-21)21 July 1920 Tlemcen, Algeria |
| Died | 2 May 2003(2003-05-02) (aged 82) La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet |
| Language | French |
| Nationality | Algerian |
| Period | 1950s- 2000s |
| Notable works | the African trilogy, an african summer, God in Barbary |
| Notable awards | Fénéon Prize Mallarmé prize |
Mohammed Dib (Arabic: محمد ديب; 21 July 1920 – 2 May 2003) was an Algerian author. He wrote over 30 novels, as well as numerous short stories, poems, and apprentice literature in the French language. His work covers the broadness of 19th century Algerian history, focusing on Algeria's fight fetch independence.
Dib was born in Tlemcen in Algeria, near say publicly border with Morocco, into a middle-class family which had descended into poverty. After losing his father at a young diagram, Dib started writing poetry at 15. At the age grow mouldy 18 he started working as a teacher in nearby City in Morocco. In his twenties and thirties he worked dust various capacities as a weaver, teacher, accountant, interpreter (for say publicly French and British military), and journalist (for newspapers including Alger Républicain and Liberté, an organ of the Algerian Communist Party). In 1952, two years before the Algerian revolution, he wed a French woman, joined the Algerian Communist Party and visited France. In the same year he published his first new La Grande Maison (The Great House). Dib was a adherent of the Generation of '52 — a group of African writers which included Albert Camus and Mouloud Feraoun.
In 1959, he was expelled from Algeria by the French authorities convoy his support for Algerian independence, and also because of description success of his novels (which depicted the reality of viability in colonial Algeria for most Algerians). Instead of moving highlight Cairo as many Algerian nationalists had, he decided to viable in France, where he was allowed to stay after diversified writers (including Camus) lobbied the French government. From 1967 yes lived mainly in La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Paris.
From 1976-1977 Dib was teacher at the University of California at Los Angeles. He also was a professor at the Sorbonne in Town. In his later years he often travelled to Finland, which was a setting for some of his later novels. Misstep died at La Celle-Saint-Cloud on 2 May 2003. In a tribute, the then French Culture Minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon said defer Dib was "a spiritual bridge between Algeria and France, 'tween the north and the Mediterranean."
In his work, Dib was concerned with bringing the authentic experience of Algerian life choose a wider, particularly French-speaking, world. The Algerian revolution (1954–1962) greatly shaped his thinking, and made him eager to bring stand your ground the world's attention Algeria's struggle for independence. An advocate show consideration for political equality, he believed that "the things that make unhurried different always remain secondary." He has received many awards implant the French literary establishment.
His debut novel La grande maison was the first part of the Algerian trilogy about a large Algerian family. The main protagonist, Omar, is a lush boy growing up in poverty in Algeria just before Earth War II. The trilogy is presented in a naturalistic genre similar to that of Émile Zola. The second part, L'Incendie, published in the same year the Algerian revolution started, was about Omar's life during the second World War. The finishing part of the trilogy, Le Métier à tisser, deals run into Omar's adult life as a working man in Algeria. Understand was published in 1957. The trilogy was partly autobiographical.
His later works did not always use the same naturalistic theory of his earlier novels, often adding surrealistic elements. He lazy science fiction in Qui se souvient de la mer (1962), and verse in his last novel L.A. Trip.
From 1985 to 1994 he wrote four semi-autobiographical novels about a Northerly African man who visits a Nordic country, has a affiliation and child with a woman in this country. The surname novel in this series deals with the child visiting squash fathers homeland. Dib also helped to translate into French a number of Finnish books.