Abdelhamid Benhedouga

Abdelhamid Benhedouga was born on 9 January 1925 in Mansourah, near Bordj Bou Arréridj, to an Arab father and a Berber mother. Educated in French and Arabic schools, he studied in Marseille and then at the Zitouna University in Tunis. Committed to the struggle for independence, he went into exile in 1955 and worked for radio in Paris and Tunis, writing hundreds of radio plays. After 1962 he headed Algerian radio and television, then chaired the National Council for Culture. He died in Algiers in October 1996.

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• Novelريح الجنوبAbdelhamid Benhedouga · 1971not translated into EnglishLiterature