Mouloud Feraoun

Benjamin Sparks (University of Memphis)

Ed. by Hugo Azerad, University of Cambridge
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 8 Mar 1913
Died 15 Mar 1962
Activity c. 1940-1962

Places

Born in Algeria
Active in Algeria

Cultural Identities

North African/ Maghrebian French

Activities

Primary

Prose writer

Resources

Feraoun's Works

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Born on 8 March 1913, in the Algerian village of Tizi Hibel, 129 km east of Algiers, Mouloud Feraoun (Mouloud Aït-Chabane) became a literary intellectual and eventual martyr of the Algerian revolution. He was assassinated by the OAS (Organisation de l’armée secrète [Organization of the Secret Army]), a pro-French-Algeria terrorist group against self-determination, with five of his colleagues at Château Royal in Algiers on 15 March 1962, three days before the formalization of the Evian Accords. Feraoun’s parents stressed the importance of an education at a young age, even during a time when most Muslims did not have the means nor the opportunity to gain an education at the primary level. He began his formal education at the age of 7 when he attended school in his native village of…

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Citation: Sparks, Benjamin. "Mouloud Feraoun". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 November 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13726, accessed 31 October 2024.]