Writing
Mohammed Dib
Born January 1, 1920 Died May 2, 2003 (Age 83)Tlemcen, Algeria3 Credits
Mohammed Dib was born in 1920 in western Algeria in Tlemcen, a hometown to which he paid homage in his famous trilogy: La Grande Maison (1952), L’Incendie (1954) and Le Métier à tisser (1957). A schoolteacher for a time, then an accountant, translator, journalist at “Alger Républicain” and for the Communist Party organ “Liberté”, he was finally expelled from Algeria in 1959. He settled in France and began his litera…
