Tahar Djaout
Tahar Djaout was an Algerian writer, poet and journalist, whose novel Les Vigiles won the Prix Méditerranée in 1991. He was born on 11 January 1954 in the village of Oulkhou, near Azeffoun, in Kabylia, and died on 2 June 1993 in Algiers.
Tahar Djaout was an Algerian writer, poet and journalist, whose novel Les Vigiles won the Prix Méditerranée in 1991. He was born on 11 January 1954 in the village of Oulkhou, near Azeffoun, in Kabylia, and died on 2 June 1993 in Algiers.
Djaout spent his youth in the Casbah of Algiers and graduated in mathematics from the University of Algiers.
Solstice barbelé, his first collection of poems, was published in Quebec in 1975, and in 1976 he became a journalist at El Moudjahid. He later headed the culture pages of the weekly Algérie-Actualité and studied information sciences in Paris.
His novels include L'Exproprié (1981), Les Chercheurs d'os (1984), L'Invention du désert (1987) and Les Vigiles (1991). Le Dernier Été de la raison was published after his death, in 1999.
In January 1993 the journalist co-founded the weekly Ruptures and became its editor.
No one has been convicted in connection with his death. Djaout is buried in Oulkhou, and the Maison de la presse in Algiers bears his name.
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