Rabah Belamri

Rabah Belamri is a writer Algérie N, born in 1946 in Bougaâ (Wilaya of Sétif, Algérie) and deceased in 1995 in Paris.

Biography

Rabah Belamri, from origin kabyle, was born the October 11th 1946 with Bougaâ, in current the Wilaya of Sétif in Algérie. It loses the sight in 1962 (year of independence of Algeria). After studies with the college of Sétif, at the School of the young blind men of El Biar (Algiers), at the Teacher training school teachers of Bouzareah and at the University of Algiers, it arrives in 1972 to Paris where it supports a doctorate devoted to the colonial ideology and acquires French nationality.

He is the author of several collections of poems, tales and novels inspired by his Algerian childhood. He was touched by the work of Jean Sénac to which he devoted a test and that he regarded as a guide.

He dies on September 28th in 1995 in Paris the continuation of an surgical operation, leaving his unfinished work.

Quotation

" It is time to collect the treasures of our oral culture, threatened of disappearance by the tumult of television. Today, in Algeria, taken care organize themselves around the small screen and the storytellers do not have any more time or do not find any more the occasion and the need for telling. (...) I tried, as far as my means, to save lapse of memory a piece of our cultural heritage. (...) These tales collected in dialectical Arabic, I due to translate them into French (...). There is not a doubt that this language the fate of their insulation and propels them in the sphere of the cultural heritage universel".

Rabah Belamri, Taken care of antan , in " El Moudjaghid" , Algiers, September 30th, 1982.

Judgments

" For Rabah Belamri, untiring questioner of the world, poetry is undoubtedly only one means which takes part, with others, with a search of clearness and plenitude. A need for light like a long time refused water but also a denunciation of all that burdens the daily newspaper and the hope: the alienated or haggled over woman, happiness séquestré."

Tahar Djaout, migrating Words, an Algerian poetic anthology , University Publications Office, Algiers, 1984.

" It has breath, force, a violence in heat as in tenderness which testifies to another ground, of another sun that ours, in short of another tradition."

Georges-Emmanuel Clancier (fourth of cover of " The Roller and the hirondelle" , 1985).

" Its work spoke about the difficulty in being, the exile, loneliness. But she also spoke to us about tenderness, she carried us in her dash towards humiliated, towards all those which contemporary violence crushed, abandonnait."

JMG Clézio, in Le Monde, Paris, October 13rd, 1995.

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