Samira Negrouche

Samira Negrouche was born on the 13^th September 1980 in Algiers. She is a francophone Algerian writer and a poet.

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Samira Negrouche is an internationally known author and is mainly popular for her poetry, as well as for her prose and her academic and dramatic texts and most of her creative writings.

She translates the Algerian modern poetry that was written in Arab and some other regional languages called minoritiesinto the English and the French languages. She is also working in many fields like the video, theatre, dance, photography and assorted visual arts works.

Samira Negrouche gained a scholarship from the National Book Centre to chase a stage in France in the year 2004 and 2005, and she was given the invitation to the Arthur Rimbaud’s house in Charleville-Mezieres.

In the year 2009, in Lyon, displaying with the Greek music player and a singer called Angelique Ionatos in ‘Without Precaution…’, Samira Negrouche had a huge influence on the opinion of the people.

Samira Negrouche was the editor of the modern day Algerian poetry that was written in the French language for the review “Ici è là” and she arranged for a collection of the modern day Algerian poetry that are written in Arabic, Tamazight and in the French languages., for the Quebecer magazine of poetry called ‘Exit’.

Samira Negrouche is a member of the international committee to the festival called ‘Voice of the Mediterranean’ Lodeve and the general secretary to the Algerian PEN club.

Samira Negrouche creates CADMOS, a cultural association for the preservation of the Mediterranean traditional patrimony.

Some of the poetry she wrote has been translated to the Italian and Spanish languages.

Bibliography

Ø  Faiblesse n’est pas de dire… Algiers: Barzakh, 2001.

Ø  Les Vagues du silence, with Yasminah Salih, Alger: Al Ikhtilef, 2002.

Ø  L’opéra cosmique, Algiers: Al Ikhtilef, 2003.

Ø  Iridienne, Echalas: Color Gang, 2005.

Ø  A l'ombre de Grenade, Toulouse: Lettres Char-nues, 2006.

Ø  Cabinet secret, Echalas: Color Gang, 2007.

Ø  Le Jazz des oliviers, Blida: Editions du Tell, 2010.

Ø  Le Dernier diabolo, under print, 2012.

Ø  Instance départ, under print, 2012.

Anthologies and joint works

Ø  J’ai embrassé l’aube d’été, Villeurbanne: Editions La Passe du vent, 2004.

Ø  L’Heure injuste !, Villeurbanne: Editions La Passe du vent, 2005.

Ø  Départements et territoires d’outre-ciel, Villeurbanne: Editions La Passe du vent, 2006.

Ø  Dans le privilège du soleil et du vent, Villeurbanne: Editions La Passe du vent, 2007.

Ø  Pour Tous !, Villeurbanne: Editions La Passe du vent, 2009.

Ø  Triangle : Poésies en traduction, Alger: Alpha, 2009.

Ø  Samira Negrouche (ed.), Lignes d'horizons, Blida: Editions du Tell, 2010.

Ø  Samira Negrouche (ed.), Quand l’amandier refleurira, Anthologie de poètes algériens contemporains, Paris: Editions de l’Amandier, 2012

Translations of her work

Ø  "Il palo elettrico soltanto", tr. to italian by Giovanni Dettori, in "Soliana", n°1, (Cagliari), nov. 2007. Cultural review, p. 21-25.

Ø  Jazz degli ulivi, translation into Italian by Annie Urselli, Alberobello, Italy: Poiesis Editrice, coll. Diwan della poesia, 2011.

Ø  A ciento ochenta grados, translation to Spanish and preface by Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau, Rosario - Buenos Aires, Argentine: Gog y Magog, 2012.