Mourad Bourboune

Mourad Bourboune, born on 23 January 1938 in Jijel, studied literature in Constantine and then in Tunis before enrolling at the Sorbonne, where he took part in the student strike of 1956. In the Latin Quarter he became close to the popular theatre milieu and in 1958 acted in a play by Kateb Yacine staged by Jean-Marie Serreau. In 1959 he joined the FLN's Fédération de France, where he handled the press, then at independence ran the daily El Moudjahid, became a minister's chief of staff and in October 1963 founded the Union of Algerian Writers. The coup d'état of 1965 drove him to France, where he wrote for the cinema.

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• NovelLe MuezzinMourad Bourboune · 1968not translated into EnglishLiterature