Mohammed Dib

Edward Still (University of Oxford)

Ed. by Charlotte Baker, Lancaster University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 8.1.1: North African Writing and Culture: Arabic, Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Lia Brozgal (University of California, Los Angeles), Helen Rachel Cousins (Birmingham Newman University), Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Dalia Mostafa (University of Manchester), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University)

Dates

Born 21 Jul 1920
Died 2 May 2003
Activity 1952-2003

Places

Born in Algeria
Active in Algeria; France; United States

Cultural Identities

North African/ Maghrebian French

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Resources

Dib's Works

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Born on 21 July, 1920, in Tlemcen, Western Algeria, Mohammed Dib became one of the most well-known and widely celebrated of Algerian writers, both at home and abroad, his status in the Algerian Francophone canon rivaled perhaps only by Kateb Yacine and Assia Djebar. In particular, his revolutionary depictions of the late colonial period, prior to Algerian Independence in 1962, retain a peerless reputation today, a reputation supported by the writings of critics such as Abdelkébir Khatibi who wrote in his famous treatise on the “Roman Maghrébin” that “ce sont surtout Mohammed Dib et Kateb Yacine qui ont pu intégrer le thème de la révolution dans une littérature romanesque valable” [it is especially Mohammed Dib and Kateb Yacine who have been able to render the theme of the…

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Citation: Still, Edward. "Mohammed Dib". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 June 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12709, accessed 25 November 2024.]