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Djamel Amrani

Djamel Amrani

Algerian poet, playwright and essayist

Djamel Amrani (29 August 1935 in Sour El-Ghozlane (Algeria) - 2 March 2005 in Algiers) was an Algerian writer of French expression.[1][2][3][4]

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Djamel (or Djamal)[5] Amrani was educated in 1952, at the communal school of Bir Mourad Raïs. On 19 May 1956 he participated in the strike of Algerian students. In 1957, he was arrested, tortured and imprisoned by the colonial army. In 1958, when he was released from prison, he was expelled to France. In 1960, he published his first book at Éditions de Minuit, Le Témoin. That same year, he met Pablo Neruda and created the newspaper Chaâb. In 1966, he became a producer of a Maghrebian program at the ORTF, and began a radio career alongside Leïla Boutaleb on Algerian radio. In 2004, he was awarded the Pablo Neruda Medal, the international distinction of poetry.

References

  1. [1]
    Articles de K. Smaïl, El Watan et O.Hind sur Djamel Amrani Archived 2016-03-17 at the Wayback Machine sur Jehat.com.
  2. [2]
    Hommage à Djamel Amrani à la Bibliothèque nationale d'Alger, articles de Yacine Idjer (entre autres) - Le poète de toutes les générations et Le diseur de vers Archived 2008-03-11 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. [3]
    Jean Déjeux, Bibliographie méthodique et critique de la littérature algérienne de langue française 1945-1977, SNED, Alger, 1979.
  4. [4]
    Jean Déjeux, Dictionnaire des auteurs maghrébins de langue française, Paris, Karthala, 1984 (ISBN 2865370852).
  5. [5]
    Talahite-Moodley, Anissa (2003). "Amrani, Djamal". In Simon Gikandi (ed.). Encyclopedia of African Literature. Taylor & Francis. p. 29. ISBN 9780415230193.
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