Muhammad Dib ( Arabic: محمد ديب , fr. Mohammed Dib , July 21, 1920 , Tlemcen - May 2, 2003 , La Cel Saint-Cloud ) - Algerian prose writer , playwright , poet , author of more than 30 novels, as well as numerous stories, poetry and children's literature in French . One of the most fruitful and famous Algerian writers. His works describe the history of Algeria in the 20th century, paying particular attention to Algeria's struggle for independence.
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| Language of Works | French |
| Awards | Feneon Prize ( 1953 ) |
| Awards | Feneon Prize [d] [d] ( 1994 ) |
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Biography
Dib was born in Tlemcen , western Algeria, near the border with Morocco , in an impoverished middle-class family. After losing his father, Deeb at the age of 15 began to write poetry. At 18, he began working as a teacher in the neighboring city of Ujda , Morocco. In the 1920s and 1930s, he worked as a weaver, teacher, accountant, translator (for the French and British military), as well as a journalist for Alger Républicain and the communist newspaper Liberté . During this period, he also studied literature at the University of Algeria. In 1952, two years before the Algerian revolution , he married a Frenchwoman, joined the Algerian Communist Party and visited France . In the same year, he published his first novel, La Grande Maison (The Big House).
In 1959, he was expelled from Algeria by the French authorities for supporting the independence of Algeria, as well as in connection with the success of his novels (which described the difficult life of Algerians under the oppression of the French). Instead of moving to Cairo, following the example of many Algerian nationalists, he was helped to stay in France. Since 1967, he lived in La Celle Saint Cloud near Paris .
From 1976-1977, Deeb worked as a teacher at the University of California, Los Angeles . He was a professor at the Sorbonne and at Moscow State University. In the following years, he often visited Finland, where he wrote several of his later novels. He died in La Celle Saint Cloud on May 2, 2003.
Creativity
His debut novel, The Big House (La Grande Maison), is the first part of a trilogy about a large Algerian family. The main character, Omar, is a young boy who grew up in poverty in Algeria on the eve of World War II. The second part, L'Incendie, published in the same year, described the life of Omar during World War II. The final part of the trilogy, The Weaver's Craft (Le Métier à tisser), describes the adult life of the hard worker Omar. The trilogy was partially autobiographical. From 1985-1994 he wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about a North African native visiting northern countries, about the relationship of this man with a northern woman, and about their joint child visiting his father’s homeland. Deeb also helped translate several Finnish books into French:
- La grande maison (1952);
- L'incendie (1954);
- Au café (1957);
- Le métier à tisser (1957);
- Baba Fekrane (1959);
- Un Éte africain (1959);
- Ombre gardienne (1961);
- Qui se souvient de la mer (1962);
- Cours sur la rive sauvage (1964);
- Le talisman (1966);
- La danse du roi (1968);
- Formulaires (1970);
- Dieu en barbarie (1970);
- Le Maitre de chasse (1973);
- L'histoire du chat qui boude (1974);
- Omneros (1975);
- Habel (1977);
- Feu beau feu (1979);
- Mille hourras pour une gueuse (1980);
- Les terrasses d'Orsol (1985);
- O vive - poèmes (1987);
- Le sommeil d'Eve (1989);
- Neiges de Marbre (1990);
- Le Désert sans détour (1992);
- L'infante Maure (1994);
- L'arbre à dires (1998);
- L'Enfant-Jazz (1998);
- Le Cœur insulaire (2000);
- The Savage Night (2001) (trans. By C. Dickson);
- Comme un bruit d'abeilles (2001);
- LA Trip (2003);
- Simorgh (2003);
- Laezza (2006).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Dib Muhammad // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ RKDartists
Links
- Mohammed Dib: Algeria recalled - Al-Ahram article
- Guardian obituary