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* Ferhat Abbas (1899–1985), political leader and essayist *
Mohamed Aïchaoui Mohamed Aïchaoui (29 January 1921 - 1959) was an Algerian journalist and militant in the nationalist movement against French Algeria. Aïchaoui wrote the '' Declaration of 1 November 1954'', the National Liberation Front's first appeal to the ...
(1921–1959), political leader and journalist * Salim Aïssa, pseudonym of Boukella, writer of detective fiction * Wasini al-A'raj (1954– ), novelist and short story writer * Atif Ali (1984– ) * Abdelkader Alloula (1939–1994) * Abderrazak Belagrouz (1981– ), writer and scholar. *
Malek Alloula Malek Alloula (1937–2015) was an Algerian poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He is chiefly notable for his poetry and essays on philosophy. He wrote several books, including ''Le Harem Colonial'' in 1981, translated into English as '' ...
(1937–2015), poet and critic * Djamal Amrani (1935–2005), poet and essayist * Jean Amrouche (1907–1962), poet * Marguerite Taos Amrouche (1913–1976), writer and singer * Leila Aouchal (1937– ), novelist *
Apuleius Apuleius (; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He lived in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day ...
(c. 124 – after 170) *
Mohammed Arkoun Mohammed Arkoun ( ar, محمد أركون; 1 February 1928 – 14 September 2010) was an Algerian scholar and thinker. He was considered to have been one of the most influential secular scholars in Islamic studies contributing to contemporary inte ...
(1928–2010) * Maya Arriz Tamza (1957– ), storyteller, novelist and playwright *
Augustine of Hippo Augustine of Hippo ( , ; la, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Afr ...
(354–430) * Zighen Aym (1957– )


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* Fatima Bakhaï (1949– ) *
Azouz Begag Azouz Begag ( ar, عزوز بقاق ) (born 5 February 1957) is a French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS. He was the delegate minister for equal opportunities of France in the government of French Prime Min ...
(1957– ), social scientist and novelist * Rabah Belamri (1946–1995), poet, short story writer and critic * Farida Belghoul (1958– ) *
Omar Belhouchet Omar Belhouchet (born 9 February 1954 in Sétif) is an Algerian journalist who is renowned for his investigative reporting and supporting freedom of the press; his work and persistence have received international recognition. During the civil wa ...
(1954– ) *
Myriam Ben Myriam Ben (10 October 1928 – 2001) was an Algerian activist, novelist, poet, and painter. Early life Marylise Ben Haïm was born in Algiers on October 10, 1928. Her father Moses Ben Haïm was of Judaized Berber descent and was a communist ...
(1928–2001), novelist, poet and activist * 'Abdelhamid Ben Hadouga (1928–1996), novelist and short story writer *
Latifa Ben Mansour Latifa Ben Mansour ( ar, لطيفة بن منصور) (born 1950 in Tlemcen) is an Algerian writer, psychoanalyst, and linguist. Her work deals with issues such as the role of women in Algerian society, Islamic extremism, storytelling, trauma, and me ...
(1950– ), writer and linguist *
Mohammed Benchicou Mohammed Boualem Benchicou ( ar, محمد بنشيكو) (born 1952 in Miliana, Aïn Defla Province) was the director and publisher of the Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption ...
(1952– ) * Salah Benlabed (1950– ) *
Malek Bennabi Malek Bennabi (1 January 1905 – 31 October 1973) ( ar, مالك بن نبي) was an Algerian writer and philosopher, who wrote about human society, particularly Muslim society with a focus on the reasons behind the fall of Muslim civilizatio ...
(1905–1973) * Jacqueline Benslimane, poet * Réda Bensmaia, novelist and critic * Albert Bensoussan, novelist, translator and academic * Fatiha Berezak, poet and performer *
Yve-Alain Bois Yve-Alain Bois (born April 16, 1952) is a professor of Art History at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Education Bois received an M.A. from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1 ...
(1952– ) * Aïcha Bouabaci, poet and short story writer * Rachid Boudjedra (1941– ), writer and educator *
Nina Bouraoui Yasmina "Nina" Bouraoui (Arabicنينا بو راوي, born 1967) is a French novelist and songwriter born in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine to an Algerian father from the town of Jijel and a French mother. She spent the first fourteen years of her ...
(1967– ), novelist * Hocine Bouzaher (1935– ), poet, politician and editor


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Albert Camus Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works ...
(1913–1960) * Martianus Capella (410–420 CE) *
Mehdi Charef Mehdi Charef (born 21 October 1952) is a French film director and screenwriter of Algerian descent. He has worked on eleven films between 1985 and 2007. His film '' Le thé au harem d'Archimède'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard secti ...
(1952– ) *
Mohamed Cherak Mohamed Cherak ( ar, محمد شراق; 14 August 1977 – 17 November 2018) was an Algerian journalist and editor-in-chief. Early life Cherak was born in 1977 in the town of Hammadi, in the lower Kabylia region of Algeria, west of the Khachna ...
(1977–2018), journalist * Corinne Chevallier (1935– ) * Hélène Cixous (1937– ), feminist writer and critic


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*, wrote the first play in Arabic (in 1847) *
Kamel Daoud Kamel Daoud ( ar, كمال داود; born June 17, 1970) is a French-Algerian writer and journalist. He currently edits the French-language daily '' Le quotidien d’Oran,'' for which he writes a popular column, "Raïna Raïkoum" (Our Opinion, Y ...
(1970– ), journalist and writer * Djamila Debèche (1926–2010), novelist and essayist *
Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida; See also . 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed th ...
(1930–2004), philosopher *
Mohammed Dib Mohammed Dib ( ar, محمد ديب; 21 July 1920 – 2 May 2003) was an Algerian author. He wrote over 30 novels, as well as numerous short stories, poems, and children's literature in the French language. He is probably Algeria's most prolific ...
(1920–2003), novelist and poet *
Tahar Djaout Tahar Djaout (11 January 1954 – 2 June 1993) was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group. Early life He was born in 1954 in Oulkhou, a village in the Kabylie region. After unive ...
(1954–1993), journalist, poet and fiction writer *
Assia Djebar Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015), known by her pen name Assia Djebar ( ar, آسيا جبار), was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted fo ...
(1936–2015 ), Francophone writer, film-maker and academic


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* Nabile Farès (1940–2016) * Fadhila El Farouk (1967– ) *
Achour Fenni Achour Fenni (Arabic: عاشور فني) is an Algerian poet, translator and academician, who has participated in several scientific, cultural and literary meetings in Algeria, North Africa, Europe, North America North America is a c ...
, poet and academic *
Mouloud Feraoun Mouloud Feraoun (8 March 1913 – 15 March 1962) was an Algerian writer and martyr of the Algerian revolution born in Tizi Hibel, Kabylie. Some of his books, written in French, have been translated into several languages including English and Ge ...
(1913–1962) * Omar Fetmouche (1955– ), artist * Touati Fettouma (1950– ), Francophone novelist of the Maghreb *
Catherine Filloux Catherine Filloux is an award-winning French Algerian American playwright and librettist and activist. Filloux's plays have confronted the issue of human rights in many nations. She is of French Algerian descent. She lives in New York City, New Y ...


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* Fatima Gallaire (1944– ), playwright * Salima Ghezali (1958– ) * François Giuliani (1938–2009) * Anna Greki, pseudonym of Colette Anna Grégoire (1931–1966), poet * Faïza Guène (1985– )


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Malek Haddad Malek Haddad (born in Constantine, Algeria on 5 July 1927; died in Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 200 ...
(1927–1978), novelist and poet * Mohamed Harbi (1933– ) * Mohamed Hassaïne (1945–1994), journalist


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Yasmina Khadra Mohammed Moulessehoul ( ar, محمد مولسهول; born January 10, 1955), better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra ( ar, ياسمينة خضراء), is an Algerian author living in France, who writes in French. One of the most famous Alger ...
(1955– ) * Aïssa Khelladi


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* Djanet LachmetAlec G. Hargreaves, ''Immigration and identity in Beur fiction: voices from the North African immigrant community in France''. Berg, 1997 (p. 174) * Aicha Lemsine (1942– ), novelist


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Ahmed Mahsas Ahmed Mahsas (November 17, 1923 – February 24, 2013) was an Algerian militant in the nationalist movement against French Algeria. Early life Ahmed Mahsas was born on 17 November 1923 in Boudouaou, Kabylia (now Boumerdès). He grew up in t ...
(1923–2013), political leader and sociologist *
Mouloud Mammeri Mouloud Mammeri () was an Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist. Biography He was born on December 28, 1917, in Ait Yenni, in Tizi Ouzou Province, French Algeria. He attended a primary school in his native village, then emigrated to ...
(1917–1989), Kabyle writer, anthropologist and linguist * Leïla Marouane (1960– ) *
Fodil Mezali Fodil Mezali ( ar, فضيل مزالي) (born in Thénia on 23 April 1959) is an Algerian journalist, editor-in-chief and managing editor. Early life Mezali was born in 1959 in the town of Thénia in the lower Kabylia region of Algeria, east o ...
(1959– ), journalist and writer *
Hocine Mezali Hocine Mezali ( ar, حسين مزالي) (born in Bordj Menaïel on 5 March 1938) is an Algerian journalist and writer. He had been the head of intelligence during the Battle of Algiers (1956–1957). Early life Mezali was born in 1938 in th ...
(1938– ), journalist and writer *
Rachid Mimouni Rachid Mimouni (In Arabic:رشيد ميموني) (20 November 1945 – 12 February 1995) was an Algerian writer, teacher and human rights activist. Mimouni wrote novels describing Algerian society in a realist style. He was threatened by ...
(1945–1995), writer, teacher and activist * Mohamed Missouri (1947–2015), writer, boxer and coach *
Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī al-Tilmisānī (or al-Maḳḳarī) (), (1577-1632) was an Algerian scholar, biographer and historian who is best known for his , a compendium of the history of Al-Andalus which provided a basis for the scholar ...
(1578–1632) *
Si Mohand Si Mohand ou-Mhand n At Hmadouch, also known as Si Mhand, (Icerɛiwen, Tizi Rached, about 1848 - Ain El Hammam, 28 December 1905) was a widely known Berber- Amazigh poet from Kabylie in Algeria. Called the "Kabyle Verlaine" by French scholars, hi ...
(1848–1905) * Malika Mokeddem (1949– ) *
Ahlam Mostaghanemi Ahlem Mosteghanemi ( ar, أحلام مستغانمي), alternatively written Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) is an Algerian writer who has been called "''probably the world's best-known Arabophone woman novelist''". She was the first Algerian wom ...
(1953– ), novelist


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* Mohammed Ould Cheikh (1905–1938), poet and novelist


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Pierre Rabhi Pierre Rabhi (born Rabah Rabhi; 29 May 1938 – 4 December 2021) was a French writer, farmer, and environmentalist. Originally a Muslim, he converted to Christianity before abandoning that religion as well. Rabhi studied in France, and is cons ...
(1938– ) * Nabila Ramdani * Leila Rezzoug (1956– ), novelist *
Emmanuel Roblès Emmanuel Roblès (4 May 1914 in Oran, French Algeria – 22 February 1995 in Boulogne, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French author. He was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1973. He was one of many influential "pied-noir" of his time. The lit ...
(1914–1995)


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Boualem Sansal Boualem Sansal ( ar, بوعلام صنصال; born 15 October 1949) is an Algerian author. In 2012, he was named winner of the Prix du roman arabe, but the prize money was withdrawn due to Sansal's visit to Israel to speak at the Jerusalem Writ ...
(1949– ) novelist *
Leïla Sebbar Leïla Sebbar (born 1941) is a French-Algerian author. Early life Leïla Sebbar was born on 9 November 1941, in Aflou. The daughter of a French mother and an Algerian father, she spent her youth in French Algeria before leaving aged seventeen fo ...
(1941– ), novelist *
Jean Sénac Jean Sénac (29 November 1926 – 30 August 1973) was an Algerian author. Born of an unknown father in Béni Saf in the Oran region of Algeria, the "poet who signed with a sun" was murdered in Algiers on 30 August 1973. His murder remains unsolve ...
(1926–1962), poet * Othmane Senadjki (1959–2010), journalist *
Benjamin Stora Benjamin Stora (born 2 December 1950) is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family that left the country following its War of ...
(1950– )


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* Wassyla Tamzali (1941– ) * Habib Tengour (1947– ) * Kahina Temzi (2003– )


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* al-Tāhir Wattar (1936–2010), novelist


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Kateb Yacine Kateb Yacine (; 2 August 1929 or 6 August 1929 – 28 October 1989) was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic, and his advocacy of the Berber cause. Biography Kateb Yacine was officially b ...
(1929–1989), novelist and playwright


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Moufdi Zakaria Moufdi Zakaria (born Zekri Cheikh; 12 June 1908 – 17 August 1977) was an Algerian activist and nationalist , poet and writer. He wrote "Kassaman", the Algerian national anthem while in prison in 1955. Biography Cheikh Zakaria Ben Slimane Ben Y ...
(1908–1977) * Salem Zenia (1962– ) * Mohammed Chaouki Zine (1972– ) * Ahmed Zitouni (1949– ), novelist


See also

* List of Algerian women writers *
List of African writers This is a list of prominent and notable writers from Africa. It includes poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars, listed by country. Algeria ''See: List of Algerian writers'' Angola ''See: List of Angolan writers'' Beni ...


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