Albert Memmi

ألبير ميمي (Known as "Albert Memmi")

Novelist, Sociologist, Essayist, Author of The Colonizer and the Colonized

Born Dec 15, 1920

Tunis, Tunisia

Passed Away May 22, 2020 Neuilly-sur-Seine (Paris), France

Lifespan 99 years old

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"Chronicler of human identity and the wounds of colonial alienation."

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World-renowned Tunisian novelist and sociologist of Jewish heritage whose autobiographical masterpiece The Pillar of Salt and foundational essay The Colonizer and the Colonized defined post-colonial theory.

Biographical Record

Albert Memmi was born in the Hara (Jewish quarter) of Tunis, studying philosophy at the University of Algiers and the Sorbonne. During World War II, he survived incarceration in a forced-labor camp in eastern Tunisia under Nazi occupation.

His 1953 debut novel, The Pillar of Salt (La Statue de sel), was prefaced by Albert Camus and vividly depicted the pluralistic, fraught reality of colonial Tunis. In 1957, his groundbreaking essay The Colonizer and the Colonized became an essential global text of anti-colonial thought and cultural identity.

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Montparnasse Cemetery (Memorial in Tunis Hara)
Paris, France

                         GPS: 48.8375, 2.3275                    

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