Nabile Farès

Nabile Farès was born in the year 1940 in Collo, Algeria. He is the son of Abdur Rahman Fares. Nabile Farès’ reputation as a writer has outshined that of his father. He is currently living in Paris, France.

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Nabile Farès fought against the French men at the end of the war of independence in the year 1960. Later on he got his doctorate in France with the dissertation on the role of the Ogre in the oral literature of the northern part of Africa.

The first work he did is the novel called Yahia, pas de chance, (1970) that came from a manuscript he carried in a Knapsack while on the run in many periods at the time of the and after the war of independence of the country. The later works were both poetry and novels. Among these is the trilogy of novels; La Découverte du nouveau monde, and the greatest novel he wrote Un Passager de l'occident,that came in part, from the friendship he had with the American writer James Baldwin.

All the works Nabile Farès did were based on the political engagement and mainly by a drive to expand the definition of the country and the people of the country, and to resist the factional politics of the country and the identity of politics.

Works of Farès

Ø  Yahia, pas de chance. Paris: le Seuil, 1970

Ø  Le Champ d'Akli. Paris: P.J. Oswald, 1971

Ø  Un Passager de l'occident. Paris: Le Seuil, 1971

Ø  Le Champ des oliviers. Paris: Le Seuil, 1972

Ø  Mémoire de l'absent. Paris: Le Seuil, 1974

Ø  L'Exil et le désarroi. Paris: Maspero, 1976

Ø  Chants d'histoire et de vie pour des roses de sable. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1978

Ø  La Mort de Salah Baye. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1979

Ø  L'Etat perdu. Paris: Actes/Sud, 1982

Ø  L'Exil au féminin. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1987

Ø  Hearing Your Story. New Orleans: U. New Orleans Press, 2008

Ø  A Passenger From the West (novel).