This is a list of notable Algerian writers:

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Ferhat Abbas Ferhat is a Turkish given name and the Turkish spelling of the Persian name Ferhad ( fa, فرهاد, ''farhād''). It may refer to: Given name Ferhad * Ferhad Ayaz (born 1994), Turkish-Swedish footballer * Ferhad Pasha Sokolović 16th-century Ott ...

(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 A ...

(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 *

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Abdelkader Alloula Abdelkader Alloula ar, عبد القادر علولة‎ (1939 in Ghazaouet, Algeria – March 14, 1994, in Oran, Algeria) was an Algerian playwright. He was assassinated by GIA terrorists. Biography Alloula was born in Ghazaouet in western ...

(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 Jean el Mouhouv Amrouche (7 February 1906 in Ighil Ali, Algeria – 16 April 1962 in Paris, France) was an Algerian francophone writer, poet and journalist. Biography Jean el Mouhouv Amrouche was born February 7, 1906, in Ighil Ali, in the val ...

(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- ...

(c. 124 – after 170) * Mohammed Arkoun (1928–2010) * Maya Arriz Tamza (1957– ), storyteller, novelist and playwright * Augustine of Hippo (354–430) * Zighen Aym (1957– )

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* Fatima Bakhaï (1949– ) * Azouz Begag (1957– ), social scientist and novelist * Rabah Belamri (1946–1995), poet, short story writer and critic * Farida Belghoul (1958– ) * Omar Belhouchet (1954– ) * Myriam Ben (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 (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 (1952– ) * Aïcha Bouabaci, poet and short story writer *

Rachid Boudjedra Rachid Boudjedra ( ar, رشيد بوجدرة) (b. 5 September 1941 in Aïn Beïda, Algeria) is an Algerian poet, novelist, playwright and critic. Boudjedra wrote in French from 1965 to 1981, at which point he switched to writing in Arabic, often ...

(1941– ), writer and educator * Nina Bouraoui (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 work ...

(1913–1960) *

Martianus Capella Martianus Minneus Felix Capella (fl. c. 410–420) was a jurist, polymath and Latin prose writer of late antiquity, one of the earliest developers of the system of the seven liberal arts that structured early medieval education. He was a nati ...

(410–420 CE) *

Mehdi Charef Mehdi Charef (born 21 October 1952) is a French film director and screenwriter of Algerian people, Algerian descent. He has worked on eleven films between 1985 and 2007. His film ''Tea in the Harem, Le thé au harem d'Archimède'' was screened ...

(1952– ) * Mohamed Cherak (1977–2018), journalist * Corinne Chevallier (1935– ) *

Hélène Cixous Hélène Cixous (; ; born 5 June 1937) is a French writer, playwright and literary critic. She is known for her experimental writing style and great versatility as a writer and thinker, her work dealing with multiple genres: theater, literary a ...

(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 (1930–2004), philosopher * Mohammed Dib (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, 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 Germ ...

(1913–1962) *

Omar Fetmouche Omar Fetmouche ( ar, عمر فطموش) (born in Bordj Menaïel on 27 April 1955) is an Algerian artist, actor and playwright. Early life Fetmouche was born in 1955 in the town of Bordj Menaïel in lower Kabylia, and after having done his basi ...

(1955– ), artist * Touati Fettouma (1950– ), Francophone novelist of the Maghreb * Catherine Filloux

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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 Faïza Guène (born 7 June 1985) is a French writer and director, best known for her two novels, ''Kiffe kiffe demain'' and ''Du rêve pour les oufs''. She has also directed several short films, including ''Rien que des mots'' (2004). Biography ...

(1985– )

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* Malek Haddad (1927–1978), novelist and poet * Mohamed Harbi (1933– ) *

Mohamed Hassaïne Mohamed Hassaïne ( ar, محمد حساين) (born in Beni Amrane on 5 January 1945, and died in Larbatache on 28 February 1994) was an Algerian journalist. Early life Hassaïne was born in 1945 in the village of Azela within the Thénia Dis ...

(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 Algeri ...

(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 the ...

(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 t ...

(1917–1989), Kabyle writer, anthropologist and linguist *

Leïla Marouane Leïla Marouane (born in 1960) is a Tunisian-born French Algerian journalist and creative writer. Leïla Marouane is a pseudonym; her full name is Leyla Zineb Mechentel. She is an author of novels and short fiction which have received a numbe ...

(1960– ) * Fodil Mezali (1959– ), journalist and writer * Hocine Mezali (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 Mohamed Missouri ( ar, محمد ميسوري; 7 December 1947 – 29 June 2015) was an Algerian amateur boxer and coach. Early life Missouri was born in 1947 in the village of Merchicha within the Col des Beni Aïcha region, in the east of t ...

(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, his wo ...

(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 (1938– ) *

Nabila Ramdani Nabila Ramdani is a French freelance journalist of Algerian descent who specialises in Anglo-French issues, Islamic affairs, and the Arab world. Life and work Ramdani has an MPhil in International History from the London School of Economics with ...

* Leila Rezzoug (1956– ), novelist * Emmanuel Roblès (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 (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 bo ...

(1929–1989), novelist and playwright

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* Moufdi Zakaria (1908–1977) * Salem Zenia (1962– ) * Mohammed Chaouki Zine (1972– ) * Ahmed Zitouni (1949– ), novelist

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