Malek Haddad

Malek Aimé Haddad (1927-1978) was born in the Lamy suburb of Constantine, the son of a teacher at the French school, in an entirely Frenchified house; he would say that he had endured this school as a dispossession. A teacher in his turn, he enrolled in law at Aix-en-Provence, gave it up, and joined Kateb Yacine as a farm labourer in the north of the Camargue. In Paris, with the painter M'hamed Issiakhem, they formed the trio that Mohammed Harbi would call infernal. He went to Tunis in 1960, fell silent after independence, ran the cultural page of An Nasr and from 1968 to 1972 directed culture at the Ministry of Information.

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• NovelJe t'offrirai une gazelleMalek Haddad · 1959not translated into EnglishLiterature