Mouloud Feraoun
Mouloud Feraoun ( Kabyle ⵎⵓⵍⵓⴷ ⴼⵔⵄⵓⵏ Mulud Ferɛun ; born March 8, 1913 in the mountain village of Tizi Hibel in the Great Kabylia region (Algeria) as the son of farmers; † March 15, 1962 in Algiers as a victim of a command from the OAS ) was an Algerian writer French Language that wrote novels - partly autobiographical - about the fate of African workers in France. His father worked temporarily in France in a mine in Lens . After graduating, Feraoun worked as a teacher in Tizi Hibel, and later outside of Kabylia as a school director. For his novel Le fils du pauvre he received the Grand Prix littéraire of Algiers. He received the Prix Populiste for his novel Retribution underground .
Works
- Le fils du pauvre (The Poor's Son) (1950) novel
- La Terre et le sang ( Retaliation underground , also The homecoming of Amer-U-Kaci) (1953) novel
- Les Chemins qui montent (The hillside roads) (1957) novel
- Les Poèmes de Si Mohand (1960) collection of poems
- Journal (1962)
- Jours de Kabylie (1968)
- Lettres à ses amis (1969) Correspondence
- L'Anniversaire (1972) Unfinished Novel
Web links
- Literature by and about Mouloud Feraoun in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feraoun, Mouloud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Algerian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tizi Hibel, Algeria |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1962 |
| Place of death | Algiers |