TAOS AMROUCHE

'Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche' (March 4 1913 in Tunis, Tunisia - April 2 1976 in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, France) was an Algerian writer and singer.
She was born to a family of Kabyle Roman Catholic converts. She was the first Algerian female writer. Her first novel ''Jacinthe noir'' (an autobiographical novel) was published in 1947 . Her mother Fadhma Aït Mansour had a great impact on her life. Her literary style reflected the oral traditions of Kabylie, descended from her mother. With her compilation of tales and poems ''La Grain magique'' in 1966 , she took the ''nom de plume'' 'Marguerite-Taos', Marguerite was her mother's Christian name.
While she wrote in French, she sang in Kabyle. Her first album ''Chants berbères de Kabylie'', which was a great success, was a collection of traditional Kabyle songs that were translated to French by her elder brother Jean Amrouche in 1939 . She was an activist in Berber issues and she was among the founders of Académie berbère in 1966.

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Writing

Further reading

External links

Writing

★ ''Jacinthe noire'' (1947) - reprint Joëlle Losfeld (1996), ISBN 2909906639

★ ''La Grain magique'' (1966) - reprint La Découverte (2000), ISBN 2707125784

★ ''Rue des tambourins'' (1969) - reprint Joëlle Losfeld (1996), ISBN 2909906620

★ ''L’amant imaginaire'' (1975)

Further reading

★ Denise Brahimi, ''Taos Amrouche, romancière'', Joëlle Losfeld (1995), ISBN 2909906574

External links

★ Bio details, bibliomonde.net - in French