Arezki Metref (born May 21, 1952), is an Algerian writer, poet and journalist.
Biography
Arezki Metref born in
Sour El-Ghozlane, near
Bouira, on May 21, 1952. His father, Belaid Metref, a
kabyle originating from Aith yenni in Greater Kabylia. Azerki lives in Bouira, then
Laghouat
Laghouat ( ar, الأغواط; en, Laghwat) is the capital of the Laghouat Province, Algeria, south of the Algerian capital Algiers. Located in the Amour Range of the Saharan Atlas, the town is an oasis on the north edge of the Sahara Dese ...
, and in
Algiers
Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...
from 1956. Arezki Metref, a student of the Institute of Political Studies in Algiers, became a journalist in 1972, Collaborates in L'Unité, Révolution africaine,
El Moudjahid, Algérie-Actualité. In January 1993, he created with
Tahar Djaout and Abdelkrim Djaad the weekly Ruptures, of which he was editor-in-chief.
[Ali El Hadj Tahar, Encyclopédie de la poésie algérienne de langue française, 1930–2008 (en deux tomes), Alger, Éditions Dalimen, 2009, p956 ().]
After the assassination of Djaout, he left for France in 1993 and returned to
Algeria only in 2001. He collaborated with the London daily
The Guardian, in the magazine Autrement, Maghreb-Machrek, Panoramique and in the world section of the weekly Politis. He also gives lectures on Algeria in France and abroad. After publishing numerous books, he began painting in 2003 and exhibited in 2004.
References
1952 births
20th-century journalists
21st-century journalists
Algerian journalists
Algerian male poets
Algerian writers in French
Berber poets
Kabyle people
Living people
20th-century Algerian poets
21st-century Algerian poets
20th-century Algerian writers
21st-century Algerian writers
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