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Place of Birth: Souk Ahras, Souk Ahras Province, Algeria
About Tahar Ouettar
- Tahar Ouettar (Arabic: ?????? ?????; 1936 – August 12, 2010) was an Algerian writer.
- Ouettar was called "one of the North African nation’s most prolific Arabic language authors".
- Born into a Berber family in Sedrata, he was a supporter of arabization in the wake of Algerian independence.
- The essence of his project, he once said, was to “liberate Algerian identity to make it Arab-Berber-Islamic.” He denounced Algeria's French-language writers as "vestiges of colonialism".
- Ouettar published his first novel "Al Laz" in 1974.
- While steadfast in his assault on francophone writers, he defended the use of the Berber language.
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