Amrouche, Fadhma A. M. (Fadhma Aïth Mansour), 1882 or 1883-1967

LC control no.	n 88218135
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Amrouche, Fadhma A. M. (Fadhma Aïth Mansour), 1882 or 1883-1967 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Amrouche, Fadhma A. M. (Fadhma Aïth Mansour), 1882 or 3-1967 Amrouche, Fadhma Aïth Mansour, 1882 or 1883-1967
Associated country	Algeria
Birth date	[1882,1883]
Death date	1967
Place of birth	Algeria
Place of death	Brittany (France)
Profession or occupation	White Sisters Authors Nationalists
Found in	My life story, 1989: CIP t.p. (Fadhma A.M. Amrouche) galley (Fadhma Aïth Mansour Amrouche, b. 1882 or 3; d. 1967) LC manual cat. (hdg.: Amrouche, Fadhma Aïth Mansour, 1882?-1967) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed November 7, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Amrouche, Fadhma; autobiographer / memoirist; born 1882 in Algeria; spent ten years at the French school; worked at a French Catholic mission run by the White Sisters and converted to Catholicism; during World War II, she and most of the family were in Tunis; her son Jean, by then a recognized writer in France, asked her to write an autobiography (1946); her own poems were published in a French collection appropriately entitled Le Grain Magique (The Magic Grain) (1960); she was revered by Kabyle nationalists as one of the mothers of the movement because of her key role in saving and transmitting oral traditions that constitute the core of Berber cultural identity; died 1967 in Brittany, France)
Associated language	fre