Hamid Nacer-Khodja
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Hamid Nacer-Khodja 🇩🇿

حميد ناصر خوجة (Known as "Hamid Nacer-Khodja")
Poet, Literary Scholar, Foremost Authority on Jean Sénac, University Professor
Born Jan 25, 1953 🇩🇿 Algiers, Algeria
Passed Away Sep 16, 2016 Djelfa, Algeria
Lifespan 63 years old
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"To preserve the poetry of a friend is an act of fidelity that defies death itself."

Archival Overview

Esteemed Algerian poet and professor at the University of Djelfa, whose scholarly research single-handedly rescued and published the complete works of Jean Sénac.

Biographical Record

Hamid Nacer-Khodja was an intimate friend and disciple of martyr-poet Jean Sénac in 1970s Algiers. Developing into an accomplished poet with collections like 'La Reconstitution' and 'Chants d'exil', he chose to live and teach literature for decades at the University of Djelfa in the interior of the country.

Nacer-Khodja was the world's foremost authority on Jean Sénac, dedicating thirty years of meticulous archival detective work to locating, editing, and publishing Sénac's complete poems, essays, and journals, preserving an essential chapter of Algerian anti-colonial literary heritage.

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Final Resting Place

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El Kettar Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria
GPS: 36.7872, 3.0506
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