Kateb Yacine
Kateb Yacine ( Central Atlas Tamazight ⴽⴰⵜⵉⴱ ⵢⴰⵙⵉⵏ Katib Yasin ; born August 6, 1929 in Constantine ( Algeria ), † October 28, 1989 in Tronche near Grenoble ) was an Algerian writer.
Life
Kateb Yacine came from a venerable, educated family. His father was Kateb Mohamed, his mother Kateb Jasmina. His training at the Collège de Sétif was interrupted in 1945 when he was arrested. He had taken part in a nationalist demonstration in Sétif, which resulted in a massacre of Algerians by the French military and French police. While he was detained without a trial, Kateb Yacine said he discovered his two great passions, revolution and poetry .
In 1946, when he was seventeen, he published his first book. In 1947 he visited France for the first time . From 1948 to 1951 he worked as a journalist for the Alger républicain , a local newspaper. In 1952 he was a dock worker, which he quickly gave up to devote himself to writing. He traveled extensively, often to France, especially Paris , but then settled back in Algeria in the early 1970s.
Kateb Yacine wrote his books in French . The main topic was the Berber political liberation struggle . In 1988 he received the Prix national des lettres .
The eldest daughter of the poet Nadia, born in 1954, lives in Paris. The second born is called Hans (originally Mohammed Karl) and was born in Hamburg in 1959. He lives in Germany. His youngest son, Amazigh Kateb , lives in France and writes Arabic songs for the band Gnawa Diffusion .
Works
- Soliloques , 1946
- Abdelkader et l'indépendance algérienne , 1948
- Le cadavre encerclé , 1955
- Nedjma , 1956 (German: Nedschma, 1987)
- Le cercle des représailles , 1959
- La femme sauvage , 1963
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Le Polygone étoilé , 1966
- Star polygon. Novel. Translated from French by Thomas Bleicher and Marie-Noe͏̈lle Vitry, Kinzelbach, Mainz 1994, ISBN 978-3-927069-23-7 .
- Les ancêtres redoublent de férocité , 1967
- L'homme aux sandales de caoutchouc , 1970
- Mohammed prends ta valise , 1971
- Saout Ennisa , 1972
- La guerre de 2000 ans , 1974
- La Palestine trahie , 1972–1982
- L'oeuvre en fragments , 1986
literature
- Stephan Leopold: Problematic hegemony, libidinal investment. On the question of colonial allegory formation using the example of Albert Camus and Kateb Yacine , in Lendemains. Études comparées sur la France - Comparative French research # 130/131, Narr, Tübingen 2008, ISSN 0170-3803 , pp. 162-198 online
Web links
- Literature by and about Kateb Yacine in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kateb Yacine in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kateb, Yacine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Algerian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Constantine |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1989 |
| Place of death | Tronche at Grenoble |