Mouloud Mammeri
Born on December 28, 1917 in Tawrirt Mimoune (At Yenni, Wilaya of Tizi-Ouzou), Mouloud MAMMERI is an emblematic figure of the Algerian intellectual of integrity who bequeathed us an immense multidisciplinary work.
Celebrating the centenary of his birth, under the High Patronage of His Excellency the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelaziz BOUTFIKA, is a sign of recognition of this great author. Throughout his life, he never stopped rehabilitating, through his research, the language, literature and Amazigh civilization and enriching the Algerian intellectual scene with novels, plays and high-quality short stories.
From 1962 to 1973, he taught Tamazight at the chair of ethnography at the University of Algiers; from 1969 to 1979, he was director of CRAPE (Center for Anthropological, Prehistoric and Ethnographic Research); and from 1966 to 1967, he headed the UEA (Union of Algerian Writers). In 1982, he founded CERAM (Center for Amazigh Studies and Research) and the Awal magazine in Paris. Among his flagship works which deal with the Amazigh domain:
Les lsefra, Poems by Si Mohand U Mhand, 1969, this poet who captivates all those who hear him; Ancient Kabyle poems 1980, where he exhumes and gives voice to a plethora of talented poets, such as Youcef Oukaci who lived at the end of the 17th century; L'Ahellil du Gourara, 1984, which reveals the ancestral ritual poetry of the Algerian Sahara; Inna-yas Ccix Muhend (Sheikh Mohand said), 1990, book which restores the wisdom of the famous man of religion whose words have become proverbial.
He believes deeply in this tenacious people who paid dearly for their freedom. “Whatever point in the race where the end reaches me,” he wrote, “I will leave with the firm certainty that whatever obstacles history brings, it is in the direction of their liberation that my people – and with them the others – will go. Ignorance, prejudice, ignorance can hinder this free movement for a moment, but it is certain that the day will inevitably come when we will distinguish the truth from its false pretenses.
Mouloud MAMMERI died on February 26, 1989, following a tragic traffic accident in the Wilaya of Ain Defla.
Celebrating the centenary of his birth, under the High Patronage of His Excellency the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelaziz BOUTFIKA, is a sign of recognition of this great author. Throughout his life, he never stopped rehabilitating, through his research, the language, literature and Amazigh civilization and enriching the Algerian intellectual scene with novels, plays and high-quality short stories.
From 1962 to 1973, he taught Tamazight at the chair of ethnography at the University of Algiers; from 1969 to 1979, he was director of CRAPE (Center for Anthropological, Prehistoric and Ethnographic Research); and from 1966 to 1967, he headed the UEA (Union of Algerian Writers). In 1982, he founded CERAM (Center for Amazigh Studies and Research) and the Awal magazine in Paris. Among his flagship works which deal with the Amazigh domain:
Les lsefra, Poems by Si Mohand U Mhand, 1969, this poet who captivates all those who hear him; Ancient Kabyle poems 1980, where he exhumes and gives voice to a plethora of talented poets, such as Youcef Oukaci who lived at the end of the 17th century; L'Ahellil du Gourara, 1984, which reveals the ancestral ritual poetry of the Algerian Sahara; Inna-yas Ccix Muhend (Sheikh Mohand said), 1990, book which restores the wisdom of the famous man of religion whose words have become proverbial.
He believes deeply in this tenacious people who paid dearly for their freedom. “Whatever point in the race where the end reaches me,” he wrote, “I will leave with the firm certainty that whatever obstacles history brings, it is in the direction of their liberation that my people – and with them the others – will go. Ignorance, prejudice, ignorance can hinder this free movement for a moment, but it is certain that the day will inevitably come when we will distinguish the truth from its false pretenses.
Mouloud MAMMERI died on February 26, 1989, following a tragic traffic accident in the Wilaya of Ain Defla.