Boualem Sansal

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Boualem Sansal (2012)

Boualem Sansal (born October 15, 1949 in Theniet El Had , Tissemsilt Province , Algeria ) is a Francophone Algerian writer.

Life

Sansal was born in the northern Algerian province of Tissemsilt . He went through a high school education with the subjects Latin and Ancient Greek . In the 1970s he studied engineering and economics and received a doctorate in economics . From 1992 he worked as a high-ranking official in the Algerian Ministry of Industry and published two technical books between 1992 and 1994.

Boualem Sansal at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011

In 1999, his first novel Le serment des barbaren (German The oath of barbarians ) was published in Paris , for which he received two awards, the Prix ​​Tropiques and the Prix ​​du premier roman . Four more novels followed by 2006, all of which were translated into German, and in 2003 the Journal intime et politique, Algérie 40 ans après ( personal and political diary, Algeria, 40 years later ). After the publication of his first novel, Sansal was dismissed from the civil service.

Boualem Sansal at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011

Since working exclusively as a writer, Sansal has dealt with historical material several times. The Petit éloge de la mémoire , published in Paris in 2007, is an epic narrative about the epoch of Berber rule. The novel Le village de l'allemand ou Le journal des frères Schiller (German Das Dorf des Deutschen) , published in 2008, tells of the involvement of a former German Nazi in the formation of the FLN liberation movement in the Algerian War of Independence and describes the effects of the civil war of the 1990s a village. In 2015 he received the Grand Prix du Roman for his novel 2084. La fin du monde .

In the debate on military intervention in the civil war in Libya in 2011, he contradicted Bernard-Henri Lévy . He “doesn't really” believe that preventing a massacre of the Libyan people is the goal of the French military operation in Libya . In his opinion, the reason is that Sarkozy has an “image problem in the Arab world” because his prime minister and foreign minister let dictators finance their vacations and because he himself courted Mubarak and Gaddafi in Paris. Sarkozy is only trying to restore his credibility. Sansal criticized the European double standard and said: “It would be great if the Arab revolution also led to a revolution in Europe. Europe and its leaders must admit that we were wrong. "

On October 16, 2011, Sansal was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade . The award speech was given by Peter von Matt .

In 2012 he was appointed to the competition jury of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival .

In 2016 he was a member of the jury for The Extraordinary Book of the Children and Youth Program of the Berlin International Literature Festival .

Sansal grew up in an Islamic society. However, he sees himself as secular and has repeatedly sharply criticized Islamism . In general, he is critical of every form of religion, especially Islam: “The religion seems very dangerous to me because of its brutal, totalitarian side. Islam has become a terrifying law that speaks nothing but prohibitions, banishes doubt and whose zealots are more and more violent. He has to find his spirituality, his most important power. You have to liberate, decolonize and socialize Islam. ”After the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris , he said he was not surprised. Islamism strives for world domination . Today Sansal lives with his wife and two grown daughters near Algiers .

Works (selection)

  • Le serment des barbarians. Novel. Paris 1999 (German 2003: The oath of the barbarians ).
  • L'enfant fou de l'arbre creux. Novel. Paris 2003 (awarded the Michel Dard Literature Prize, German 2003: The crazy child from the hollow tree ).
  • Journal intime et politique, Algérie 40 ans après. Together with Maïssa Bey, Mohamed Kacimi, Nourredine Saadi, Leïla Sebbar. Gallimard, 2003 (German for example (not yet published): Personal and Political Diary, Algeria, 40 years later ).
  • Dis-moi le paradis. Novel. Paris, 2003 (German 2004: Tell me about paradise ).
  • Harraga. Novel. Paris 2005 (German 2007: Harraga ).
  • La question linguistique en Algérie . Lyriades, Paris 2006
  • Poste restante: Alger. Lettre de colère et d'espoir à mes compatriotes. Essay. Paris 2006 (German 2008: Post restante Algier ).
  • Petit éloge de la mémoire. Essay. Editions Gallimard , Paris 2007.
  • Le village de l'allemand ou Le journal des frères Schiller. Gallimard, 2008 (German 2009: Das Dorf des Deutschen or the Schiller Brothers' diary ).
  • Rue Darwin. Novel. Gallimard, 2011, ISBN 978-2-07-013460-1 .
  • 2084. La fin du monde , Gallimard, Paris 2015 (German 2084. The end of the world. )

German-language editions

  • The crazy child from the hollow tree . Novel. (Original title: L'enfant fou de l'arbre creux , translated by Riek Walther). 2nd Edition. Merlin Verlag , Gifkendorf 2011 (German-language first edition 2002), ISBN 978-3-87536-293-0 .
  • The barbarian oath. Novel. (Original title: Le serment des barbaren , translated by Regina Keil-Sagawe), 2nd edition, Merlin, Gifkendorf 2010 (German-language first edition 2003), ISBN 978-3-87536-280-0 .
  • Tell me about paradise! Novel. (Original title: Dis-moi le paradis , translated by Regina Keil-Sagawe), 2nd edition, Merlin, Gifkendorf 2011 (German-language first edition 2004), ISBN 978-3-87536-229-9 .
  • Harraga. Novel. (Original: Harraga. ) Translated by Riek Walther. 2nd Edition. Merlin, Gifkendorf 2011 (German-language first edition 2007), ISBN 978-3-87536-294-7 .
  • Poste restante: Algiers. Angry and hopeful letter to my countrymen. Followed by Our heart beats in Tunis . Four essays and an interview on the occasion of the Arab Spring. (Original: Poste restante: Alger. Translated by Ulrich Zieger , Daniel Eckert, Rainer Haubrich ; Interview Reiner Wandler), 3rd, extended edition, Merlin, Gifkendorf 2011 (German-language first edition 2008), ISBN 978-3-87536-292- 3 .
  • The German Village or the Schiller Brothers' diary. Novel. (Original: Le village de l'allemand ou le journal des frères Schiller. Translated by Ulrich Zieger ), 2nd edition, Merlin, Gifkendorf 2010 (German-language first edition 2009), ISBN 978-3-87536-281-7 .
  • Rue Darwin. Novel. Original: Rue Darwin. Translated from Christiane Kayser. Merlin, Gifkendorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-87536-302-9 .
  • Maghreb - a little world history. Original: Petit éloge de la mémoire. The 4001 années de la nostalgia. Translator Regina Keil-Sagawe. Berlin University Press, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86280-041-4 .
  • Allah's fool. How Islamism is conquering the world . Translator Regina Keil-Sagawe. Merlin, Gifkendorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-87536-309-8 .
  • 2084. The end of the world. Translated by Vincent von Wroblewsky. Merlin, Vastorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-87536-321-0 .

See also

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b interview. FAZ.net
  2. ^ Roland Kaufhold : The village of the German. A great work by the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal. Book review on hagalil September 19, 2011. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
  3. ↑ Kathrin Moser: What comes next? Boualem Sansal on the war in Libya . In: 3sat / Kulturzeit, March 30, 2011. Accessed June 22, 2011.
  4. ↑ friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels.de (PDF)
  5. ↑ Boualem Sansal receives peace prize. Spiegel Online , June 9, 2011; Retrieved June 9, 2011.
  6. ↑ Why "2084" is not on the shortlist , Deutschlandradio Kultur, October 28, 2015
  7. ↑ Boualem Sansal: “Il faut libérer l'Islam” , interview with Marianne Payot in L'Express on August 14, 2011.
  8. ↑ (So) Sansal reveals the hitherto well-kept secret that a number of Germans fought in the ranks of the Algerian liberation movement FLN ... Most of them were SS people, 'experts' who understood industrial mass murder or other 'specialists' who managed to escape to Egypt in the post-war confusion.
  9. ↑ Above select .pdf or print view
personal data
SURNAME Sansal, Boualem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Algerian writer and economist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Theniet El Had , Tissemsilt Province, Algeria