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Mohammed Dib was an Algerian novelist, poet, and playwright, known for his early trilogy on Algeria, La Grande Maison (1952;.
Born on 21 July 1920, in Tlemcen, into a cultured family of artisans: his paternal grandfather and grand-uncle, the brothers Ghouti Dib and Mohammed Dib.

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Biography

Born on 21 July 1920, in Tlemcen, into a cultured family of artisans: his paternal grandfather and grand-uncle, the brothers Ghouti Dib and Mohammed Dib were masters of the Tlemcenian Arab-Andalusian music.

In 1924, a serious accident in one leg immobilized him for a year in bed. In 1931, his father dies of pneumonia as he is only eleven. His mother remains a widow with six children, of whom he is the eldest.

In 1932, he entered the college of Tlemcen, then, in 1935, at the high school of Oujda (Morocco) where he obtained his baccalaureate degree in 1938. Immediately, he practiced as a teacher for a year in Zoudj-el-Beghal, near the Moroccan border. In 1940 he was required to word as a civil for the Génie at Tlemcen. In 1942, he went to Algiers where he obtained a position of interpreter-editor French-English with the Service Prêt-Bail. Back in 1944 in Tlemcen, where he worked in different professions: accountant, carpets designer, preceptor.

In 1948, he was invited in 1948 to the literary meetings of

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Algerian Author Mohammed Dib

His semi-autobiographical trilogy centering on the lives of a large Algeria family did much to introduce the Algerian way of life to a wider audience, particularly French-speaking society, the language in which the books were written. Published in 1952, La grande maison was both Dib’s debut novel, and the first book in the trilogy. The book tells the story of a young boy named Omar, who experienced extreme poverty when growing up in the years prior to World War II. The second book in the Algerian trilogy was published in 1954, the same year that the Algerian revolution broke out. Named L’Incendie, the book details Omar’s life during World War II, with the final book, Le Métier à tisser focusing on Omar’s adult life in Algeria. The trilogy is written in the naturalistic style associated with French writer Emile Zola, while Dib’s later works featured surrealistic elements such as science fiction in his 1962 novel Qui se souvient de la mer.

Having started his working career as a teacher in the Moroccan town of Oujda at th

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Mohammed Dib, a very short biography for The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 7.1.2.00: North African Maghrebi Writing and Culture: Francophone and Arabic.

Mohammed Dib for The Literary Encyclopedia Born on 21 July, 1920, in Tlemcen, Western Algeria, Mohammed Dib became one of the most well-known and widely celebrated of Algerian writers, both at home and abroad, his status in the Algerian Francophone canon rivaled perhaps only by Kateb Yacine and Assia Djebar. In particular, his revolutionary depictions of the late colonial period, prior to Algerian Independence in 1962, retain a peerless reputation today, a reputation supported by the writings of critics such as Abdelkébir Khatibi who wrote in his famous treatise on the “Roman Maghrébin” that “ce sont surtout Mohammed Dib et Kateb Yacine qui ont pu intégrer le thème de la révolution dans une littérature romanesque valable” (Khatibi 1979, 94). However, Dib is not just noteworthy for his best known novelistic works: “La Trilogie Algérie”, consisting of La Grande Maison (1952), L’Incendie (1954) and Le Métier à Tisser (1957), and his