Al kateb yacine biography

  • Kateb Yacine was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic, and his advocacy of the Berber cause.
  • Kateb Yacine was an Algerian poet, novelist, and playwright, one of North Africa's most respected literary figures.
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    Kateb Yacine


    Born

    in Constantine, Algeria

    August 06, 1929


    Died

    October 28, 1989


    Website

    http://www.limag.refer.org/Textes/Manuref/KATEB...


    Genre

    Literature & Fiction, Poetry


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    Reporter for Alger Republicain until 1950; then full-time writer. Yacine is one of the most notable French Algerian writers. Nedjma, a long prose poem reminiscent of Faulkner in the handling of time, has been called by Georges J. Joyaux "undoubtedly the best testimonial to the birth of a new Algeria." Yacine once said: "Nedjma [the girl in the story] is the soul of Algeria, torn apart since its origin and ravaged by too many exclusive passions."

    From Wikipedia: Kateb Yacine was officially born on August 6, 1929, but it is more likely that his birth occurred four days earlier. He was born in Constantine. Born as Yacine Kateb, he once said that he was so used to hearing his teachers calling out names with the last name first that he adopted KaReporter for Alge

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    Remembering Algerian novelist Kateb Yacine: An eternal captive to his idea of life

    Two reputations

    The West's image of Yacine is a more accurate portrayal. It does not reduce his career to a single novel, even though Nedjma was widely acclaimed, nor does it confine him to the label of "novelist," which he had rejected, considering himself primarily a poet and dramatist.

    While Nedjma was a significant milestone in Yacine's literary journey and solidified his position in Algerian and Arab literature, his true significance as a writer is that he broke new ground in Francophone literature, whether through poetry, theatre, or novels.

    By introducing a new form and writing style, Yacine became the undisputed pionjär of contemporary Algerian literature. It is a title only Mohammed Dib may contest. And no one comes close to Yacine's status as the true innovator of Algerian novels written in French. 

    No poetry without chaos 

    Arab readers are not familiar with Yacine's poetry because

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    Kateb Yacine

    Algerian writer (1929–1989)

    Kateb Yacine (Arabic pronunciation:[kæːtbjæːsiːn]; 2 August 1929 or 6 August 1929 – 28 October 1989) was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic, and his advocacy of the Berber cause.

    Biography

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    Kateb Yacine was officially born in 6 August 1929 in Constantine, though it is likely that his birth occurred fyra days earlier.[1] Although his birth name is Yacine Kateb, he once[when?] said that he was so used to hearing his teachers calling out names with the last name first that he adopted Kateb Yacine as a pen name.

    He was born into a scholarly marabouticChaouiBerber family from the modern Sedrata, in wilaya of Souk Ahras (in the Aurès region).[2] His maternal grandfather was the 'bach adel', or deputy judge of the qadi in Condé Smendou (Zirout Youcef). His father was a lawyer, and the family followed him through his various assign