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| | Meherdad's Blog : A Tribute to Kateb Yacine, Meherdad blogs on sulekha, Books blogs, Meherdad blog from india |
 | | Kateb's militancy, always flamboyant and even quixotic, whether in favor of Algerian independence, Stalinist communism, Muslim women, to the right to get drunk, or even Berber cultures, the passion notwithstanding, were for him a secondary preoccupation, compared to writing. |
 | | Kateb Yacine's first name was Yacine and his surname was Kateb, but he retained the inverted order of his name, doubtless in continuance of the usage from public school. |
 | | It was on Wednesday, November 1, the anniversary of the outbreak of the Algerian revolution in 1954, that the writer Kateb Yacine was buried in the El Alia cemetery, at the gates of Alger. |
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