Benhadouga, Abdelhamid, 1925-1996
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Name (Latin)
Benhadouga, Abdelhamid, 1925-1996
Name (Arabic)
هدوقه، عبد الحميد
Other forms of name
Benhedouga, Abdelhamid, 1925-1996
Bin Hadūgah, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, 1925-1996
Bin Hadūvah, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, 1925-1996
Ibn Hadūvah, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, 1925-1996
nna Bin Hadūqah, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, 1925-
Benhadouga, Abdelhamid, 1925-
ابن هدوڤة، عبد الحميد
بن هدوڤه، عبد الحميد
بن هدوقة، عبد الحميد
ابن هدوقه، عبد الحميد
Date of birth
1925
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Amthāl Jazāʼirīyah, c2007:t.p. (ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd bin Hadūvah)
- Djazya et les derviches, c1992:t.p.(Abdelhamid Benhedouga)
- His La mise à nu, c1981:t.p. (Abdelhamid Benhadouga)
- Abdelhamid Benhadouga; though many Francophone Algerian writers are better known, he is without doubt the father of modern Arabic literature in Algeria; from the 1950s, Algeria's Arabic literature became inseparable from the quest for national identity and independence, and he was at the centre of this endeavour; born 9 January 1925 in al-Hambra, a village in the district of Mansoura and the country of Setif, northeast Algeria; his father was Arab and his mother Berber, experienced from childhood the traditional Algerian diglossia; sent to the primary school in Mansoura at an early age, where French was the language of instruction; at the Qur'anic school he also attended, he had to memorize the Qur'an in Arabic; after a few years his father sent him instead to the Kittaniya Islamic Institute in Constantine, where he spent 5 years until the events of May 8, 1945 and the Constantine uprising forced him to return to his village; went to Marseilles to study at a technical school, then one in Grenoble; found a job as an industrial worker in France; returned to Algeria in 1949 on holiday, and was urged to stay and complete his Arabic studies by his father; resumed at Kittaniya Islamic Institute, then Zaytouna Islamic University in Tunis; joined the Tunisian School of Drama and Acting for 4 years; while in Tunis he became active in the political Algerian movement, appointed president of the Algerian Students Association in Tunisia; joined the Algerian National Liberation Front (NLF) and became one of its leading activists; on return to Algeria in 1954 he taught at Kittaniya Islamic Institute for a year; fled to France under a false identity, worked as a labourer while continuing political activities among the Algerian community; translator in the Arabic section of Radio France for 3 years; in 1958 the NLF asked him to go to Tunisia to head the Arabic section of its new Voice of Algeria radio station; stayed until Algeria's independence from France in 1962; went to Algiers to become head of both the Arabic and Berber Radio stations, until 1978, after which he dedicated most of his time to writing; had started to write short stories and to translate Algerian francophone literature into Arabic in 1952; wrote over 200 radio plays for Radio Algiers, some of which were broadcast by the Arabic service of the BBC and other radio services; wrote short stories and 5 novels in Arabic; his Southern Wind [Rīḥ al-janūb] (1970) is widely acknowledged as the first major Arabic Algerian novel, and was translated into French, Spanish and German (not English) and made into an Algerian film; in the 1970s and 1980s he warned of the danger of blind Islamism; died 20 October 1996 in Algiers ( (Independent (UK), Obituary: Abdelhamid Benhadouga, 28 October 1996, viewed August 12, 2025) )
- LC data base, 7-18-85(MLC hdg.: Bin Hadūghah, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, 1925-)
- LC database, 19 May 2011:(hdg.: Bin Hadūgah, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, 1925-)
- LC manual auth. cd.(hdg.: Bin Hadūgah, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, 1925-)
- al-Azal wa-al-bunduqīyah, 1998:t.p. (ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Bin Hadūqah)