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Profile of Albert Memmi
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Albert Memmi |
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15th December 1920 |
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Tunis, Tunisia |
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Albert Memmi (born December 15, 1920) is a Tunisian-born French writer and essayist.
Born in colonial Tunisia from Tunisian Jewish origins, he spoke Arabic as his mother tongue. He was educated in French primary schools, and continued on to the Carnot high school in Tunis, the University of Algiers where he studied philosophy, and finally the Sorbonne in Paris. Albert Memmi found himself at the crossroads of three cultures, and based his work on the difficulty of finding a balance between the East and the West.
Parallel with his literary work, he pursued a career as a teacher; first as a teacher at the Carnot high school in Tunis (1953) and later in France where he remained after Tunisian independence at the Practical School of Higher Studies, at HEC and at the University of Nanterre (1970).
Although having sustained the independence movement in Tunisia, he was not able to find a place in the new Muslim state.
He published his widely known first novel, an autobiography entitled "The Statue of Salt" (also translated as "The Pillar of Salt") in 1953 with a preface by Albert Camus.
His best-known work is an essay on theory, with preface by Jean-Paul Sartre: "The Colonizer and the Colonized", published in 1957 and which appeared at the time as a support to the independence movements. This work showed how the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized conditioned each to the other.
He is also known for the "Anthology of Maghrebian literature" (written in collaboration) published in 1965 (vol. 1) and 1969 (vol. 2).
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