Malek Haddad

Malek Haddad is a writer Algérie N of French expression born the July 5th 1927 with Constantine and died in Algiers the June 2nd 1978.

Biography

Wire of Slimane Haddad, teacher Kabyle in Constantine, it is in this city that Malek Haddad made its studies. He more extremely saw the French language at the school like an exile still than the exile: " The colonial school colonizes the heart… On our premises, it is true, each time a graduate was made, one made Français". " There always was a school between my past and moi". " I am separated less from my fatherland by the Mediterranean than by the language française".

Itself teacher for one short period, it is registered with the Faculty of Law of Aix-en-Provence but gives up its studies after 1954 to go to work as farm laborer with Kateb Yacine in the Camargue.

During of Release|war of Algeria], Malek Haddad collaborates in several reviews among which Entretiens , Progrès , Confluents , the French Lettres. He works with broadcasting French and written novels between 1958 and 1961.

After 1962 it settles in Constantine, collaborates in the weekly magazine Atlas and the review November and directs 1965 to 1968 the cultural page of An Nasr which appears then in French language. Responsible for the direction of the Culture to the ministry for the Information of 1968 with 1972, it founds the literary review Promesses . It is named in 1974 secretary of the Union of the Algerian writers.

Malek Haddad dies of the continuations of a cancer on June 2nd 1978 with Algiers. The Palate of the Culture of Constantine bears its name today. Though translated in fourteen languages, work Malek Haddad remains relatively little known.

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