Daniel Timsit

Daniel Timsit (born December 16, 1928 in Algiers , † August 2, 2002 in Paris ) was an Algerian politician, doctor and writer:

Timsit was in an Sephardic - Jewish born family who has been resident for centuries in Algiers and by the Décret Crémieux of 1870 the French citizenship received.

He fought on the side of the awakening Algerian independence movement against the colonial power France, was a member of the Parti communiste algérien (PCA) and joined the Algerian Liberation Front ( Front de Liberation Nationale , FLN), which is why he was imprisoned by the French authorities from 1956 to 1962 .

In 1961 in Marseille he published Tous Algériens (“They are all Algerians”) out of prison , a compilation of works by Algerian writers (including Albert Camus ).

After the end of the Algerian war , he was Algerian Agriculture Minister, trying to "self-government" and the land reform drive. After the army coup of 1965 he left the government, tried to work as a doctor in Algiers for a few months, but had to leave Algeria at the end of the 1960s and emigrated to France.

literature

• Bernhard Schmid: Algeria. Frontline State in Global War? Neoliberalism , Social Movements and Islamic Ideology in a North African Country. 2005, ISBN 3-89771-019-6

Works

• Algérie, récit anachronique
• Suite baroque, histoire de Joseph, de Slimane et de nuages
• Récits de la longue patience (prison diaries)

Web links

• Algerian literature webpage ( Memento of April 13, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
• Information on Daniel Timsit in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .