biography mohamed dib
Mohammed Dib
MohammedDib (July 21, 1920 - May 2, 2003) is an Algerian writer of French language, author of novels, news, plays, tales for children, and of poetry.
Biography
Orphan of father at 11 years, it starts to write as of the 15 years age. Later, its meeting with a French teacher, Roger Bellissant (which will become his father-in-law) consolidates it in this way. It works itself as teacher of village (1938-1940). He will be also an accountant, translator and republican journalist in Algiers and Liberté, newspaper of the Algerian Communist Party. In 1948, it takes part in the Meetings of Sidi Madani meadows of Blida and makes the knowledge of Jean Cayrol, Louis Guilloux and Albert Camus. Its first novel, "the Large house", published in 1952, obtains the Fénéon price. First shutter of a trilogy inspired by its birthplace, Tlemcen, this novel describes the atmosphere of rural Algeria of the end of 1930. "the Fire" (1954) and "the Weaving loom" (1957) supplement the trilogy. In 1959, it is expelled of Algeria by the colonial police force because of its militant activities. Andre Malraux, Albert Camus, Jean Cayrol intervene so that it can settle in France. After a few years spent in the south of France, in Mougins, it is established definitively, in 1967, with the That-Saint-Cloud in the Paris area. In 1976-1977, Mohammed Dib teaches at the University of California (UCLA) in Los Angeles, experiment which will inspire to him its novel in worms "L.A. Trip" (2003). Between 1983 and 1986, it teaches in the Sorbonne. It goes several times to Finland where it collaborates, with Guillevic, with translations of Finnish writers. These stays inspire to him its "Scandinavian trilogy", published since 1989: "marble Snows", "the Sleep of Eve" and "Infante Moor". In its last books, "Simorgh", then "Laëzza", finished a few days before its death, it returns, in the shape of a literary puzzle, on its memories of youth. Mohamed Dib received in 1994 the Great Prize of the Francophonie of the French Academy, awarded for the first time to a Maghrebian writer. It obtained in 1998 the Mallarmé Price for its collection of poems "the child-jazz".
Quotation on Mohamed Dib
"This man of a country which has nothing to do with the trees of my window speaks with the words about Villon and Péguy" (Louis Aragon)
Principal works
1.the Large House, novel, the Threshold, 1952 and Points Threshold.
2.The Fire, novel, the Threshold, 1954 and Points Threshold.
3.At the coffee, news, Gallimard, 1955;Sindbad, 1984.
4.The Weaving loom, novel, the Threshold, 1957 and Points Threshold.
5.Fekrane baba, tales for children, the Farandole, [ [ 1959 ].
6.Shade guardian, poems, Gallimard, 1960; Sindbad, 1981;
The Difference, 2003.
7.Who remembers the sea, novel, the Threshold, 1962 and Points Threshold.
8.Dance of the king, novel, the Threshold, 1968.
9.God in cruelty, novel, the Threshold, 1970.
11. Forms, Poems, The Threshold, 1970.
12.The Master of hunting, novel, the Threshold, 1973 and Points Threshold.
13.The Cat which is sulky, tales for children, the Farandole, 1974 and Albin Michel 2004.
14.Habel, novel, the Threshold, 1977.
15.Fire beautiful fire, poems, the Threshold, 1979.
16.Terraces of Orsol, novel, Sindbad, 1985; The Difference, 2003.
17. The Sleep of Eve, novel, Sindbad, 1989; The Difference, 2003.
18.Marble snows, novel, Sindbad, 1990.
19.The Desert without turning, novel, Sindbad, 1992, the Difference 2006.
20.Infante Moor, novel, Albin Michel, 1994.
21.Tlemcen or places of the writing, texts and photographs, the black Review, 1994.
22.The Night wild, Romance, Albin Michel, 1995.
23.If Devil wants, Romance, Albin Michel, 1998.
24.The Tree with statements, news, test, Albin Michel, 1998.
25.The Child jazz, poems, the Difference, 1998.
26.The insular Heart, poems, the Difference, 2000.
27Like a noise of bees, Albin Michel, 2001. L.A. Trip, novel, the Difference, 2003.
28.Simorgh, news, test, Albin Michel, 2003.
29.Laëzza, news, test, Albin Michel, 2006