Djamel Amrani

Biography

Djamel Amrani was born on August 19, 1935 in Sour El Ghozlane. Coming from a modest family of nine children of which he was the youngest. From a father working as a P and T receiver and a mother who had never been to school.

Following their father through itinerant missions, the Amrani family stayed in several locations, notably in Cherchell, before settling permanently in 1952 in Algiers. The young Djamel will attend the municipal school of Bir Mourad Raïs there. And it is by wearing out his pants on school benches that he will make a literally literary and capital discovery in his life. The Death of the Wolf, by Alfred de Vigny, and The Loves of Chopin, by George Sand, which he knew by he...