Djamel Amrani
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Djamel Amrani 🇩🇿

جمال عمراني (Known as "Djamel Amrani")
Poet of the Algerian Revolution, Diplomat, Survivor of Colonial Torture
Born Dec 15, 1935 🇩🇿 Sour El Ghozlane (Bouira), Algeria
Passed Away Mar 02, 2005 Algiers, Algeria
Lifespan 69 years old
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"I bear witness to the dawn that rose from the blood of my brothers."

Archival Overview

Major Algerian poet and resistance writer who took part in the 1956 student strike, survived horrific colonial torture, and published his moving testimony 'Le Témoin' in Paris in 1960.

Biographical Record

Djamel Amrani was born in Sour El Ghozlane. On May 19, 1956, while a student in Algiers, he answered the historic FLN call for an unlimited student strike. Arrested by French paratroopers in 1957, he was tortured, and his father and brother were murdered in colonial reprisal camps.

Fleeing to Paris, he published 'Le Témoin' (The Witness) with Éditions de Minuit in 1960, an account that galvanized French and international intellectuals against the war. Amrani authored over twenty volumes of poetry, including 'Soleil de notre nuit' and 'L'Arbre du sommeil', earning the Pablo Neruda International Poetry Prize.

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El Alia Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria
GPS: 36.7267, 3.1611
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