Rabah Belamri

Rabah Belamri ( October 11, 1946 in Bougaâ im Wilaya Sétif - September 28, 1995 in Paris ) was an Algerian writer who published in French .

Life

Belamri was born in northeast Algeria in 1946. After school and studies in Algeria, he came to Paris in 1972 and later became a French citizen. His blindness at the age of 16 - also due to the lack of medical care in the final phase of the Algerian struggle for independence - forms the autobiographical background of his debut novel Regard blessé in 1987 (German 2002 in Suhrkamp as an injured eye ). Belamri's fairy tales and poems had been published since 1982 before Regard Blessé. In total, Belamri left a work of around 20 volumes of poems, stories, fairy tales, novels and essays, of which, apart from Regard blessé, only the novel L'Asile de pierre (1989) as Asyl aus Stein appeared in German in 1992. Belamri died in Paris in 1995 at the age of 48, having previously returned to Algeria.

Awards

• Prix France Culture 1987 for Regard Blessé
• Prix Kateb Yacine for Femmes sans visage (Roman, 1992)

Works in German

• Regard blessé, roman autobiographique. Gallimard, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-07-070802-0
  • German: hurt look. Novel , from d. Franz. V. Bernd Schwibs. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-12283-5
• L'Asile de pierre , Roman, Gallimard, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-07-071593-0
  • German: Asylum made of stone (Roman), from German Franz. V. Eva Moldenhauer . Beck and Glückler, Freiburg / Breisgau 1992, ISBN 3-89470-116-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rabah Belamri near Suhrkamp
2. ↑ “Injured Eye - Roman” at Suhrkamp  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Two review notes on “Injured Eye” at perlentaucher.de

Web links

• Literature by and about Rabah Belamri in the catalog of the German National Library