Occupation Novelist, playwright | Books Babel taxi | |
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Born 1955 El Hamel, French Algeria Similar Darina Al‑Joundi, Rachid Koraïchi, James Sacré, Thierry Fabre, Sylvie Chenus | ||
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For the Moroccan painter, see Mohamed Kacimi (Moroccan painter).
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Mohamed Kacimi (born 1955) is an Algerian novelist and playwright.
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Early life
Mohamed Kacimi was born in 1955 in El Hamel, French Algeria. He was raised as a Muslim, and he attended both French and Islamic schools. He emigrated to France in 1981, settling in Paris.
Career
Kacimi is the author of several novels, plays and non-fiction books. His first novel, Le mouchoir, was turned down fourteen times before it was published by L'Harmattan in 1987. His 2006 play, Terre sainte, received a good review from Le Figaro when it was performed in Avignon in 2013. Meanwhile, Kacimi also worked as a translator and a ghostwriter. He was also a contributor to Actuel, a French magazine, and he produced Les Chemins de la connaissance on France Culture.
Kacimi is a critic of Al Jazeera. In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting of 7 January 2015, he wrote a Facebook post relating remarks voiced by teenagers from Val-de-Marne against Charlie Hebdo; however, he was unable to explain where he had heard them specifically, leading Marianne and other media outlets to wonder if he had made them up.
Novels
Plays
Non-fiction
