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Mohammed Dib
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Mohammed Dib was an Algerian poet, writer, playwright, and novelist who wrote in French. He was born in Tlemcen in 1920 and died in La Celle-Saint-Cloud in 2003. His native name is محمد ديب. Dib received the Grand prix de la francophonie award.
He was employed by the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Paris. Open Library lists 23 works by him, including Comme un Bruit D'Abeilles, Tlemcen or Places of Writing, En el café, Automatic Speech Recognition of Arabic Phonemes with Neural Networks, and Algerie.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 2 sources: Wikidata, Open Library. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Comme un Bruit D'Abeilles
- Tlemcen or Places of Writing
- En el café
- Automatic Speech Recognition of Arabic Phonemes with Neural Networks
- Algerie
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1920-07-21 ) 21 July 1920, Tlemcen , Algeria
- Died
- 2 May 2003 (2003-05-02) (aged 82), La Celle-Saint-Cloud , France
- Occupation
- Novelist, poet
- Language
- French
- Nationality
- Algerian
- Period
- 1950s- 2000s
- Notable works
- the Algerian trilogy , an african summer , God in Barbary
- Notable awards
- Fénéon Prize , Mallarmé prize
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Muhammad
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Algeria
- Place of birth
- Tlemcen
- Place of death
- La Celle-Saint-Cloud
- Occupation
- novelist
- Employer
- University of Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1920-07-21
- date of death
- 2003-05-02
- name in native language
- محمد ديب
- Commons category
- Mohammed Dib
- writing language
- French
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Mohammed Dib (Arabic: محمد ديب; 21 July 1920 – 2 May 2003) was an Algerian author. He wrote over 30 novels, as well as numerous short stories, poems, and children's literature in the French language. His work covers the breadth of 20th century Algerian history, focusing on Algeria's fight for independence.
Life
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