Kateb Yacine
كاتب ياسين
Writer
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Algeria
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Algiers,
Algeria
Major Algerian novelist and playwright whose 1956 novel Nedjma is considered a landmark of North African literature.
Kateb Yacine's novel Nedjma is widely regarded as one of the most important works of modern North African literature, and he later shifted much of his writing to Arabic-language popular theater aimed at reaching wider Algerian audiences.
Representation
Independent