Azzedine Bounemeur

Azzedine Bounemeur was born in 1945 at Badsi, a hamlet in the heights of Beni Haroun, in the commune of Grarem, in the north of the Constantinois, and lost his father very early. On 25 December 1954, nationalist fighters set up a post in the family farm; Lakhdar Bentobal became his guardian, and the child is said to have been the youngest soldier of the National Liberation Army. At ten, he was among those tortured for interrogation after the massacres of the Constantinois in 1955. In 1957 he was active alongside Salah Boubnider, head of wilaya II, and left for Tunis on 8 August 1958. He lives in Algeria and publishes in France.

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• NovelLes Bandits de l'AtlasAzzedine Bounemeur · 1983not translated into EnglishLiterature