MOHAMED DIB

Mohamed Dib was born in the city of Tlemcen in western Algeria, from a literary and educated Tlemcenic family, received his primary education at the French school, without attending the Koranic school that his peers were attending.After his father's death in 1931, he began to write poetry, and from 1938 to 1940 he traveled to the region  He was recruited in 1942 by the Allied armies during the Second World War and worked as an interpreter between French and English in Algiers. He returned in 1945 until 1947 to his hometown of Tlemcen, and he worked there in the manufacture of carpets, published in this period his poetry works under the name of Debyat and published his work in the city of Geneva, was invited to attend a youth movement in the city of Blida and met there writers such as Albert Camus and John Carroll  Bryce Barrian and Mouloud Pharaoh and other writers are international. During this period he was interested in journalism and joined the newspaper of the Republic in Algeria and began writing fiery articles denouncing French colonialism. Its rate His works varied between novel, poetry and meditations Triple Algeria: The Grand House 1952 The fire 1954 The loom 1957 Triple North: Surfaces of Ursol 1985 Eve nap 1989 Snow Alabaster 1990 He received several awards, the most important of which was the Francophone Award in 1994 Mohamed Dib is a great Algerian writer and novelist. He was born in the western Algerian city of Tlemcen in 1920 and lived his childhood as a poor and an orphan after his father died at the age of ten.  But that did not stop his determination to continue studying hard and hard in his hometown, and at the age of nineteen he worked in education and then moved in 1942 to work in the railway.  Then worked as an accountant and then a translator .. Then designed for decoration and then literally in the fabric made carpets.  After moving in all these professions moved in 1948 to the Algerian capital and met there with the French writers (Albert Camus) and (Mouloud Pharaoh) and others to increase his interest in writing and writing.  Since 1950, he began working as a journalist and worked in the newspaper «Republic of Algeria» accompanied by the writer «Kateb Yassin».  He left Algeria in the 1950s and then several countries and cities, from Paris to Rome, from Helsinki to the capitals of Eastern Europe, then Morocco in 1960. With Algeria's independence in 1962, he returned to his hometown of Tlemcen, Algeria. In 1963, he was awarded the State Prize for Literature in Algeria, accompanied by the poet Mohammed Al-Eid Al-Khalifa.  He received the Francophone Prize in 1994 from the French Academy for his narrative and poetic works. After writing the novel, story, poetry and play, he lived for more than 80 years and died on 2 May 2003 in Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris. Mohamed Dib published his first literary work in 1952, his famous novel "The Great House", published by the French "Les Rois," and ran out of its first edition a month later.  He then published the novel "Who Mentions the Sea?" And then the novel "Fire", which predicted the Algerian revolution, which erupted three months after its release.  In 1957 he published the novel "Loom".  He then published his narrative writings between 1970 and 1977, publishing three novels: "The God of Brutality" in 1970, "The Master of Sniping" in 1973, and "Abel" in 1977. He left more than 30 authors, including 18 novels, the last of which "if the devil wishes  "The Tree of Gossip" in 1998, five poems, including "Ah Let It Be Life" in 1987, four fiction collections including "The Wild Night" in 1997, and three plays, the latest "A Thousand Fun for a Prostitute" in 1980. Besides his translation of many works  In Finnish to French.