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Mammeri, Mouloud, 1917-1989

LC control no.n 83069555
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LC classificationPQ3989.M29
Personal name headingMammeri, Mouloud, 1917-1989
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Variant(s)Mammeri, M. (Mouloud), 1917-1989
Associated countryAlgeria
Birth date19171228
Death date1989
Place of birthTaourirt-Mimoun (Algeria)
Place of deathAlgeria
AffiliationLycée Louis-le-Grand (Paris, France) École normale supérieure (Cachan, France) Université d'Alger Musée du Bardo (Algiers, Algeria) Centre d'études et de recherches Amazigh (France)
Profession or occupationEssayists Ethnologists Novelists College teachers
Found inHis La colline oubliée, 1952.
Litterature orale, 1982: t.p. (M. Mammeri) p. vii (Mouloud Mammeri)
Escales, 1992: t.p. (Mouloud Mammeri) p. 4 cover (1917-1989)
Dictionary of African Biography, accessed February 27, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Mammeri, Mouloud; fiction writer, essayist, ethnologist, professor; born 28 December 1917 in Taourirt-Mimoun, Algeria; went to Paris to continue his studies at the Lycée Louis le Grand in order to prepare for entrance to the École Normale Supérieure (1937); had a dual career as a teacher and a writer; was a professor in the sociology department at the University of Algiers and then director of the Centre de recherches anthropologiques préhistoriques and ethnographiques (CRAPE) at the Bardo Museum in Algiers; chose to become the scribe and interpreter of the oral tradition of his native Kabylia; founded the Center of Amazigh Studies and Research (CERAM) (1982); received an honorary doctorate from the Sorbonne in Paris (1988); the department of Amazigh language and culture was created at the University of Tizi-Ouzou and renamed Mouloud Mammeri University (1991); died 1989 near Algiers, Algeria)