1. Mouloud Mammeri was an Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist.
10 Facts About Mouloud Mammeri
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Mouloud Mammeri was born on December 28,1917, in Ait Yenni, in Tizi Ouzou Province, French Algeria.
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Mouloud Mammeri attended a primary school in his native village, then emigrated to Morocco to live in his uncle's house in Rabat.
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Mouloud Mammeri taught in Medea, and then in Ben Aknoun, and published his first novel, The Forgotten Hill in 1952.
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Mouloud Mammeri was forced to leave Algiers in 1957 because of the Algerian War.
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Mouloud Mammeri came back to Algeria shortly after its independence in 1962.
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In 1969 Mouloud Mammeri collected and published texts of the Berber poet Si Mohand.
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Mouloud Mammeri headed the first national union of Algerian writers for a time, until he left due to disagreements over views of the role of writers in society.
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Mouloud Mammeri died the evening of February 26,1989, in a car accident, which took place near Ain-Defla on his return from a symposium in Oujda.
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Mouloud Mammeri's funeral was spectacular, with more than 200,000 people in attendance.