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
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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)
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Wikipedia description:
Abdelhamid ben Hadouga or Abdelhamid Benhedouga (in Arabic عبد الحميد بن هدوقة) was an Algerian writer, born on 9 January 1925 in Mansourah near Bordj Bou Arréridj to an Arab Algerian father and a Berber mother. He wrote more than fifteen novels in Arabic as well as short stories and plays. He has been described as one of the most important Algerian writers in Arabic of his time. He also worked for cultural programming in a number of radio stations in Paris, Tunisia and Algeria. Between 1957 and 1974, he wrote tens of theatrical pieces and sketches for the BBC Arabic Service, Tunisian radio and TéléDiffusion d'Algérie. His novel Vent du Sud was adapted to a feature film. many of his books were translated to French. Ben Hadouga died on 26 October 1996.
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