Salah Guemriche

Salah Guemriche (born May 6, 1946 in Guelma, Algeria) is an Algerian writer living in France since 1976. First a professor of French, then an academic, a graduate in ethnology (memory on the Tuaregs of Tassili) and in information and communication sciences (DEA, Jussieu Paris 7), he has published many studies on the subject, notably in Le J.T.: staging of current affairs on television, a collective work (Ed. INA / French Documentation, 1986). A freelance journalist, he has collaborated, as a column manager or columnist, in Jeune Afrique (1984-1989), Paroles et musique (1984-1991), and has written about a hundred op-eds, notably in Le Monde et Libération (1982-2015), Le Courrier de l'Unesco, Le Matin, Huffington-Post, L'Obs-Le-Plus... Essayist and novelist, his first texts published in France were published by Simone de Beauvoir in Les Temps Modernes (December 1971 issue). Become a specialist in the Battle of Poitiers (732) - to which he devoted two books: a historical novel and an essay, he was a consultant for the design of the historic site "732, the Battle" (Vouneuil-sur-Vienne). In 1988, he published a biography of Sappho for Seghers. This is his very first book published in France. This will be followed by novels and essays, including the Dictionary of French Words of Arabic (and Turkish and Persian) origin, published at Le Seuil in 2007, then in your pocket (Points-Seuil, 2012 and 2015); a noir novel in the "Rivages/Noir" collection: L'homme de la première phrase (2000); a historical novel, Un amour de jihad, which tells, against the backdrop of the battle of Poitiers, the love between the daughter of Duke Eudes d'Aquitaine and the Berber governor of Narbonne. His latest publications are Chronicles of a Selected Immigration (Ed. de L'Aube, 22-8-19) and, on the "peaceful revolution" triggered by an entire people on February 22: Algeria 2019: the Reconquest (Orients-Editions, 4-10-2019).