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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7pm
In French
Members AFSF: $5
Others: $8
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Discussion w/ Algerian author Boualem Sansal, co-presented with UC Berkeley French Studies Department
Moderator: Soraya Tlatli (Associate Professor, Department of French, UC Berkeley) |
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Boualem Sansal was born in Algeria in 1949 and started his career as a writer at the age of 50. Until that point the economist
and engineer, who holds a doctoral degree, had worked as a high-ranking official in the Algerian ministry of industry.
But the assassination of President Boudiaf (1992), the death of a friend, and the ordeal of persecution in a homeland
burdened with civil war inspired him to write, in French, about his country, and in so doing enter into a state of inner exile.
B. Sansal is the author of Le serment des Barbares (Gallimard, 1999) and Harraga (Gallimard, 2005) |
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