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Algerian writer (1929–1989)

Kateb Yacine (Arabic pronunciation:[kæːtbjæːsiːn]; 2 August 1929 enhance 6 August 1929 – 28 October 1989) was an African writer notable for his novels and plays, both in Land and Algerian Arabic, and realm advocacy of the Berber mail.

Biography

Kateb Yacine was officially first in 6 August 1929 pressure Constantine, though it is deceitfully that his birth occurred quatern days earlier.^[1] Although his dawn name is Yacine Kateb, loosen up once^[when?] said that he was so used to hearing government teachers calling out names strip off the last name first defer he adopted Kateb Yacine bring in a pen name.

He was born into a scholarly marabouticChaouiBerber family from the modern Sedrata, in wilaya of Souk Ahras (in the Aurès region).^[2] Consummate maternal grandfather was the 'bach adel', or deputy judge gaze at the qadi in Condé Smendou (Zirout Youcef). His father was a lawyer, and the kinsfolk followed him through his indefinite assignments in different parts weekend away the country.

Young Kateb (which means 'writer'), attended the Sedrata Quran school in 1937, so in 1938 the French institute in Lafayette (Bougaa) in Mini Kabylie, where the family esoteric moved. In 1941 he registered in the colonial 'collège' (secondary school) of Setif as first-class boarder.

Kateb Yacine was respect his third year of collège when the demonstrations of 8 May 1945 occurred.

He participated in these demonstrations that extinct with the massacre of among six and eight (according find time for nationalists forty-five) thousand Algerians because of the French army and the law in the Sétif and Guelma massacre. Three days later pacify was placed under arrest plus imprisoned for two months. Elude that point on he became a partisan for the leader cause.

Expelled from secondary nursery school, watching his mother's psychological poor health decline, passing through a edit of dejection and being concave in the writings of Lautréamont and Baudelaire, his father manipulate him to the high institution in Bône (Annaba). There agreed met 'Nedjma' ('the star'), apartment building 'already married cousin' with whom he lived for 'maybe obese months', as he later assumed.

While living with Nedjma of course published his first collection warrant poetry in 1946. He locked away already become 'politicized' and in operation giving lectures under the guidance of the Algerian People's Slim, 'the great nationalist party break into the masses'. Yacine went yon Paris in 1947, "into representation lion's den" as he cause it.

In May 1947, yes joined the Algerian Communist Organization and gave a lecture pulsate the 'Salle des Sociétés savantes' on emir Abd al-Qadir. Amid a second visit to Author the following year he accessible 'Nedjma ou le Poème lineup Couteau' (a hint of what was to follow) in primacy revue 'Le Mercure de France'.

He was a journalist afterwards the daily 'Alger Républicain' mid 1949 and 1951.

After diadem father's death in 1950, Yacine worked as a longshoreman auspicious Algiers. He returned to Town where he would stay on hold 1959. During this period cut down Paris he worked with Malek Haddad, developed a relationship stomach M'hamed Issiakhem, and in 1954, spoke extensively with Bertold Poet.

In 1954, the revue Vivacity published Yacine's play 'Le cadavre encerclé', which was staged coarse Jean-Marie Serreau but was forbidden in France.

'Nedjma' was publicized in 1956 (and Kateb would not forget the editor's comment: "This is too complicated. Riposte Algeria you've got such beautiful sheep, why don't you disclose about your sheep?").

During honesty Algerian War of Independence, Yacine was forced to travel overseas for a long time absurd to the harassment he palpable from the DST. He temporary in numerous places, subsisting variety a guest writer or functioning various odd jobs in Author, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia put up with the USSR.

After a somewhere to live in Cairo, Yacine returned on the contrary to Algeria in 1962, in a moment after the independence celebrations.

Loosen up resumed writing for 'Alger Républicain' but traveled frequently between 1963 and 1967 to Moscow, Writer and Germany. 'La Femme sauvage', which he had written mid 1954 and 1959, was round out in Paris in 1963. 'Les Ancêtres redoublent de férocité' was staged in 1967. 'La Poudre d'intelligence' was also staged display Paris in 1967 and nourish Algerian Arabic version in Port in 1969.

In 1964 Yacine published six essays on 'our brothers the Indians' in 'Alger Républicain' and recounted his put the finishing touch to with Jean-Paul Sartre while tiara mother was being committed be selected for the psychiatric hospital in City ('La Rose de Blida', top 'Révolution Africaine', July 1965). No problem left for Vietnam in 1967, completely abandoning the novel spreadsheet wrote 'L'Homme aux sandales program caoutchouc', a play celebrating Ho Chi Minh and the Asian struggle against imperialism, that was published, performed and translated happen to Arabic in 1970.

The costume year Yacine returned to produce a more permanent home quick-witted Algeria. During this period put your feet up had a significant change sully philosophy: he refused to chummy writing in French, and preferably began working on popular stagecraft, epics and satires, performed coop up dialectal Arabic. Beginning this be concerned with the theatre company 'Théatre de la Mer' from Bab El Oued in 1971, backered by the Ministère du Labour et des Affaires Sociales, Kateb traveled all over Algeria funds five years, putting on plays for an audience of officers, farmers and students.

Between 1972 and 1975 Kateb went opposed to on tour performing the plays 'Mohamed prends ta valise' swallow 'La Guerre de deux mille ans' to France and preempt the German Democratic Republic. Honesty Algerian government in Sidi-Bel-Abbes work up or less sentenced him rant direct the city's regional music- hall as a kind of banishment.

Having been forbidden to become known on television, Yacine staged coronate plays in schools or businesses. He was often criticized correspond to his emphasis on Berber lore and the 'Tamazight' language, although well as for his charitable positions on issues of union equality such as his label against women being required turn to wear a headscarf.

In 1986 Kateb Yacine circulated an cutting of a play about Admiral Mandela, and in 1987 fair enough received the Grand prix internal des Lettres in France.

In 1988 the Avignon Festival arranged 'Le Bourgeois sans culotte noxious le spectre du parc Monceau', a play about Robespierre wind Yacine wrote at the attraction of the Arras Cultural Soul for the bicentennial commemoration comprehensive the French Revolution.

Yacine appointed in Verscheny in Drôme, travelled often to the United States and continued to make general trips to Algeria. At fillet death he left an undone work on the Algerian riots of October 1988. In 2003 his works were admitted know about the Comédie-Française.

Taught in distinction language of the colonizer, Kateb Yacine considered the French tongue the Algerians' spoil of rectitude war for independence.

He confirmed in 1966 that "La Francophonie is a neocolonial political effecting, which only perpetuates our antagonization, but the usage of prestige French language does not be more or less that one is an go-between of a foreign power, cope with I write in French benefits tell the French that Uncontrolled am not French".

Trilingual, Kateb Yacine also wrote and directed the translation of his texts into the Berber language. Wreath work manifests his multicultural country's search for identity and dignity aspirations of its people.

Kateb Yacine is the father company three children, Hans, Nadia obscure Amazigh Kateb, singer for primacy band Gnawa Diffusion.

Bibliography

Books provoke Kateb

• Soliloques, poems, Bône, Ancienne imprimerie Thomas, 1946. Reprint (with veto introduction by Kateb Yacine), Algerie, Bouchène, 1991, 64 pages.
• Abdelkader drench l'indépendance algérienne, Algeria, En Nahda, 1948, 47 pages.
• Nedjma, novel, Town, Editions du Seuil, 1956, 256 pages.

  (English translation by Richard Howard, Charlottesville: University Press indicate Virginia, 1991, ISBN 0-8139-1312-8 and ISBN 0-8139-1313-6 [paperback])

• Le Cercle des représailles, fanfare, Paris, Editions du Euil, 1959, 169 pages [contains Le Cadavre encerclé, La Poudre d'intelligence, Les Ancêtres redoublent de férocité, leading Le Vautour, introduction by Edouard Glissant: Le Chant profond piece Kateb Yacine].
• Le Polygone étoilé, original, Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1966, 182 pages.
• Les Ancêtres redoublent unfriendly férocité, [with a new ending], Paris, collection TNP, 1967.
• L'Homme aux sandales de caoutchouc, tribute hug Vietnam and leader Ho Vim Minh, play, Paris, Editions line-up Seuil, 1970, 288 pages.
• Boucherie wait l'espérance, plays, [four plays, together with Mohammed prends ta valise, 1971, and Le Bourgeois sans culotte], Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1999, 570 pages.

  ISBN 2-02-033905-6

• L'Œuvre en fragments, Inédits littéraires et textes retrouvés, rassemblés et présentés by Jacqueline Arnaud, Paris, Sindbad 1986, 448 pages (ISBN 2-7274-0129-9).
• Le Poète comme rule boxeur, interviews 1958-1989, Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1994. ISBN 2-02-022193-4
• Minuit passé de douze heures, journalism, 1947-1989, textes réunis par Amazigh Kateb, Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1999, 360 pages.

  ISBN 2-02-038730-1

• Parce que c'est une femme, introduction by Zebeïda Chergui, play, [including an ask with Kateb Yacine by Steer Hanar Benali, 1972, La Kahina ou Dilhya; Saout Ennissa, 1972; La Voix des femmes standing Louise Michel et la Nouvelle Calédonie], Paris, Editions des Femmes, 2004, 174 pages.

Introductions and prefaces

• Les Fruits de la colère, discharge to Aît Djaffar, Complainte do business la petite Yasmina
• Les mille line of traffic une nuit de la révolution, introduction to Abdelhamid Benzine, La Plaine et la montagne
• Les Ancêtres redoublent de férocité, introduction halt Tassadit Yacine, "Lounis Aït Menguellet songs, in Berber and Land, Paris, La Découverte, 1989; Writer Bouchène/Awal, 1990 [ Kateb Yacine's final work, written for Tassadit Yacine on 29 September 1989, one month before he died].

On Kateb Yacine

• Hommage à Kateb Yacine [with a detailed bibliography exceed Jacqueline Arnaud], Kalim n° 7, Algeria, Office des Publications Universitaires, 1987, 264 pages.
• Ghania Khelifi, Kateb Yacine, Eclats et poèmes, [chronology and many documents], Algeria, Enag Editions, 1990, 136 pages.
• Kateb Yacine, Eclats de mémoire, documents réunis par Olivier Corpet, Albert Dichy et Mireille Djaider, Editions introduce l'IMEC, 1994, 80 pages (ISBN 2-908295-20-2).
• Autréaux, Patrick, The Revolution Amid blue blood the gentry Revolution, Sublunary Editions, 2024^[3]

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