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Samira Negrouche Quotes

born 1980 Algeria

Samira Negrouche, francophone Algerian writer and poet, born in Algiers, on September 13, 1980. Also a Medical Doctor, she lives and works in Algeria.

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Poetry is not only about words, it is also about the body, the voice, the space and the other.

I am trying to find my own way to protest and to add my contribution and my vision to our damaged world.

I consider myself a citizen of the world, but I am also very rooted in my own country.

These languages are natural to me, and there is no conflict in my mind between them.

I prefer to put everything I have in sharing the way I see and understand things.

I write from all these realities and for everyone who finds something in my writing, but I try to never write against it. I don’t have any energy to waste on hate or anger.

I have three mother tongues: Algerian Arabic, French and Kabyle.

If a line I wrote and that Nancy translated can mean something to any person anywhere in the world, I get the feeling that we’ve done something special together.

Translation is a way of opening doors.

I didn’t decide to write in French—it just happened. It’s the language that I deeply felt was the right one for me to translate myself into literature.

Attribution

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