Tahar Djaout

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Tahar Djaout (1980)

Tahar Djaout ( January 11, 1954 in Kabylia - June 2, 1993 in Algiers ) was a Francophone Algerian journalist, poet and prose writer.

Life

Djaout was born in 1954 near Azeffoun in Kabylia. As early as 1970 he drew attention to himself with the novella Les insoumis . From 1975 poems, stories and novels by him appeared regularly; his literary work comprises a total of 12 volumes. In 1991 he was awarded the Prix ​​Méditerranée for his novel Die Wächter .

From the mid-1970s, Djaout worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper El Moudjahid and from 1980 to 1984 and again from 1987 to 1992 for the weekly newspaper Algérie-Actualité as a literary critic and cultural editor. When Djilali Khellas founded the literary magazine Erriwaya in 1990 , Djaout was among the first authors to work on it. In 1993 he founded the magazine Ruptures .

“If you talk, you die. If you don't talk, you die too. So speak and die. "

- Tahar Djaout shortly before he was murdered

According to Boualem Sansal , these words created “fantastic wildfire” in his country. People felt like scales from their eyes ... His words gave courage.

Djaout was among the first intellectuals to fall victim to the Algerian civil war . Because of his support for secularism and his opposition to fanaticism, the Groupe Islamique Armé carried out an attack on Djaout on May 26, 1993, from which he succumbed a week later at the age of 39.

When Assia Djebar was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2000, she dedicated this honor to the authors Tahar Djaout, Youssef Sebti and Abdelkader Alloula , all of whom were murdered in 1993 and 1994.

Works (selection)

  • The Search for the Bones , Roman ( Les chercheurs d'os , 1984). Aufbau-Verlag (New Text Edition), Berlin and Weimar 1988, ISBN 3-351-01167-9 ; NA bei Kinzelbach, Mainz 1995, ISBN 3-927069-30-2
  • The expropriated ( L'Exproprié , 1981/91). Manholt, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-924903-38-7
  • The guards. Roman ( Les vigiles , 1991). Folio-Verlag, Vienna and Bozen 1998, ISBN 3-85256-091-8

literature

  • Julija Šukys: Silence is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization), Univ. of Nebraska Press, London and Lincoln 2007, ISBN 978-0803243200

Web links

Commons : Tahar Djaout  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Marabout: Algeria Chronicle
  2. Julija Šukys: Tahar Djaout  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / julija.sukys.googlepages.com  
  3. ^ Folio-Verlag, authors: Tahar Djaout
  4. LIMAG Littératures du Maghreb: Ruptures
  5. Martina Meister, The gloomy visions of Boualem Sansal. World on Sunday , May 29, 2016
  6. ^ Spiegel Online : Documentation: Assia Djebar's acceptance speech