Abstract
Kateb Yacine is the most famous Algerian playwright. Born in 1929, Kateb Yacine lived in Algeria until 1951, working as a journalist for Alger Républicain before settling in France, then in Italy and finally in Germany. He returned to Algeria in the early seventies, while directing a theatre group at Sidi-Bel-Abbes. In 1946, he published his first collection of poems, ?Soliloques', before achieving fame in 1956 for his novel ?Nedjma', which treats the quest for a restored Algeria in a mythic manner. Its discontinuous chronology and multiple narrative voices have deeply influenced Francophone North African literature, and writers elsewhere in the Third World.
