Tahir Wattar

al-Tahir Wattar (1936 - August 12, 2010) was an Algerian writer. Called "one of the North African nation’s most prolific Arabic-language authors". Wattar wrote about the post-colonial situation in independent Algeria. He denounced Algeria's French-language writers as "vestiges of colonialism". Wattar published his first novel "Al Laz" in 1974.^[1]

In English

The Earthquake, trans. by William Granara, Saqi Books (2000) ISBN 0-86356-339-2

References

^ Tahar Wattar, Algerian author wrote in Arabic Boston Globe via Associated Press, August 14, 2010

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Name	Wattar, Tahir
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Date of birth	1936
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Date of death	August 12, 2010
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