Maghrebi works dominated this year’s poetry longlis, and two of these have moved on to the six-book poetry shortlist.Continue Reading

“Algerian Francophone literature is, one could say, a child of the twentieth century. It has its origins both in the struggle for independence—gained in 1962—and in Algerians’ determination to recount their own collective history and individual histories with the tools and resources of the French educational system, with its literature, past, and poetry, imposed on Algeria when it was a colony of France.”Continue Reading