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Abdelhamid Benhedouga
Mansoura, Algeria
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Foundational novelist hailed as the father of modern Arabic fiction in Algeria, whose 1971 masterpiece Rih al-Janub (Wind from the South) was adapted into Algeria's first Arabic feature film.
Biographical Record
Educated at the Zitouna in Tunis and the University of Algiers, Abdelhamid Benhedouga produced cultural programs for the BBC and ORTF in Paris during his wartime anti-colonial activism. In 1971, he published *Rih al-Janub*, recognized by literary critics as the first mature Algerian Arabic novel.
His works, translated into fifteen languages, explored the liberation of rural women, agrarian modernization, and existential identity, serving as president of the Supreme National Council for Culture until his passing.
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Perpetual MemorialAlgiers, Algeria