Tahar Lamri

Tahar Lamri was born in the year 1958. He is an Algerian writer.

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Early Life and Career

Tahar Lamri lived in Libya from the year 1979 to the year 1984. Tahar Lamri finished his law education in international relations and worked as a translator for the French embassy in Benghazi. He later moved to France. Since the year 1986, Tahar Lamri lived in Ravenna, Italy. He published the collection of stories called I sessanta nomi dell’amore and many other short stories in Italy.

As a writer, Tahar Lamri attends many seminars, conferences and cultural events about the foreign literature and migrant literature.

In the year 1997, he took part at the international convention Migration and conflict in the making of the European democracy at the University of Bologna. In July of the year 2003, Tahar Lamri took part in the 3^rd Italian Seminary Migrant Writers, which was promoted by the literary magazine called Sagarana. In March of the year 2004, Tahar Lamri took part in the 3^rd Convention of Migration Culture and Literature of the city of Ferrara. He was in the Mediterranean Cultures Festivakl f Ravenna, which was promoted by the association in the year 2007.

Tahar Lamri was the writer and the director of the video story called La casa dei Tuareg, which was presented at the Rasi Theatre of Ravenna and theatrical narration called Wolf e le elecubrazioni di un kazoo. In June of the year 1995, Tahar Lamri becamde the winner of the 1^st edition of the Eks & Tra literary competition with the story called Solo allora sono certo potrò capire. In the year 1999, the English translation of the story was published in the MediterraneanCrossroad anthology.

Tahar Lamri wrote many other books and stories that were presented in the theatre. He published Il pellegrinaggio della voce, Ma dove andiamo and Da nessuna parte solo più lontano. The book of tale called I sessanta nomi dell'amore was given the award of the narrative prize in the International Competition in the city of Anguillara.

Tahar Lamri is the editor of the Citta Meticcia, a twice-monthly intercultural newspaper that is promoted by the homonymous association of the city of Ravenna.

Bibliography

Ø  "Solo allora sono certo potrò capire", (Only then, I’m sure I will understand), in Le voci dell'arcobaleno (Voices of the rainbow), Rome, Fara Editore, 1996

Ø  "Il pellegrinaggio della voce" (The pilgrimage of voice) and "Ma dove andiamo? Da nessuna parte solo più lontano" (Where are we going? Nowhere only farther) in Parole di sabbia, Edizioni Il Grappolo, 2002

Ø  I sessanta nomi dell'amore (The sixty names of Love), Rome, Fara Editore, 2006; Traccediverse, 2007