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born 1947 Algeria

Habib Tengour (born March 29, 1947) is a French-Algerian poet, sociologist and anthropologist. He was born in Mostaganem in eastern French Algeria in 1947.

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The freedom to describe in public what shakes one’s being.

I dream of being able to organise an international poetry festival in Algeria.

As a child, I memorized verses of the Quran, without understanding them. Quranic school helped me to acquire the rhythm and sounds of the language.

Algeria the Fortunate setting itself free

The father’s house is a living language

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Habib Tengour (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.