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Rabah Belamri

Died in 1995

Rabah Belamri was born in 1945 or 1946, depending on the sources, in Bougaa, near Sétif, and lost his sight in 1962. He studied at the lycée in Sétif, at the school for young blind people in Algiers, at the École normale de Bouzaréah and at the University of Algiers, then settled in Paris in 1972, where he defended a thesis on colonial ideology in the work of Louis Bertrand. He took French nationality. A poet, storyteller and novelist, he devoted himself to collecting the oral literature of his country. He died in Paris on 28 September 1995.

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