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Mar 29, 1947 Mostaganem, Mostaganem Province, Algeria 77 years old
Algerian poet
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About Habib Tengour
- Habib Tengour (born March 29, 1947) is a French-Algerian poet, sociologist and anthropologist.
- He was born in Mostaganem in eastern Algeria in 1947.
- The Tengour family moved to France when Habib was five years old, and he grew up there in a working-class household.
- He studied sociology in France and continued his studies in Algeria at Constantine University.
- Although his work draws heavily on various aspects of Algerian culture and tradition, Tengour writes mainly in French.
- His first published work was a book of surrealist poetry Tapapakitaques ou la poésie-île (1976).
- His principal translator in English is Pierre Joris, professor at the University of Albany. Tengour lives in Paris and Constantine.
