Jean Amrouche

Jean El Mouhoub Amrouche (1906-1962) was born in Ighil Ali, in Kabylia, into a family converted to Catholicism that moved to Tunis in 1910. The son of Fadhma Aït Mansour and the brother of Taos, he trained at Saint-Cloud and taught literature in Sousse, Bône and Tunis. He put into French the Kabyle songs that his mother had passed on to him, edited the review L'Arche, and invented on public radio the long-form interview, in which Gide, Claudel and Mauriac let confessions be drawn from them. Michel Debré removed him from the airwaves when he acted as an intermediary between de Gaulle and the FLN; he died of cancer in Paris, a month after the ceasefire.

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• PoetryCendresJean Amrouche · 1934not translated into EnglishLiterature