Mohamed Kacimi | |
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 Mohamed Kacimi in 2008 | |
| Born | 1955 |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, playwright |
Mohamed Kacimi (born 1955) is an Algerian novelist and playwright.
Mohamed Kacimi | |
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| Mohamed Kacimi in 2008 | |
| Born | 1955 |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, playwright |
Mohamed Kacimi (born 1955) is an Algerian novelist and playwright.
Mohamed Kacimi was born in 1955 in El Hamel, French Algeria. [1] [2] [3] He was raised as a Muslim, and he attended both French and Islamic schools as Zawiyet El Hamel. [3] He emigrated to France in 1981, settling in Paris. [3]
Kacimi is the author of several novels, plays and non-fiction books. His first novel, Le mouchoir, was turned down fourteen times before it was published by L'Harmattan in 1987. [3] His 2006 play, Terre sainte, received a good review from Le Figaro when it was performed in Avignon in 2013. [4] Meanwhile, Kacimi also worked as a translator and a ghostwriter. [3] He was also a contributor to Actuel, a French magazine, and he produced Les Chemins de la connaissance on France Culture. [5] In 2005, he was, with others authors such as Alain Decaux, Richard Millet and Jean-Pierre Thiollet, one of the Beirut Book Fair's guests in the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center, commonly (BIEL). [6]
Kacimi is a critic of Al Jazeera. [7] In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting of 7 January 2015, he wrote a Facebook post relating remarks voiced by teenagers from Val-de-Marne against Charlie Hebdo; however, he was unable to explain where he had heard them specifically, leading Marianne and other media outlets to wonder if he had made them up. [5]
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