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Waciny Laredj

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Born: December 31 1753

Waciny Laredj was born in Tlemcen, Algeria in 1954. He is a well-known author both in his native Algeria and in France, where he has taught literature since 1994. Several of his novels have been translated into French, although none—I believe—has made its way into English.

Laredj has won a number of prizes for his work, including the prestigious Sheikh Zayed Prize for Literature, which he won in 2007.

He told the publication Jeune Afrique that, although he might have become a Francophone author, it was his grandmother who encouraged his love of Arabic:

My first novel was published in Syria and was very well received. If it had not had success, I might have returned to the French language.

But Laredj does not discount the French influence on Algerian literature, nor the Berber.