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Her name is Mary Louise Tawoos Amroush.
She was born on March 4, 1913 AD.
She was the only daughter in a family of six children.
She studied and received her primary and secondary education in Tunisia.
– In 1935 I went to France To study at the Teachers’ Institute in the Sèvres region.
Her mother, Fatima Mansour, is a famous singer among the Amazigh tribes.
Her mother’s work had a great influence on her.
Her literary style reflects the traditions of the Berber tribes of her mother’s heritage.
She became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel in 1947.
Mary began translating Kabyle songs in cooperation with her older brother John Amroush and her mother in 1936.
In 1939, during the Song Conference in Fez, Mary received a scholarship to study in Spain.
During her stay in Spain, she worked on research on the relationship between Amazigh and Spanish folk songs.
In 1947, she published her first novel, “The Black Sapphire.”
She won the Nom de Plume Award for her collection of short stories and poems, “Magic Pills.”
“Berber songs from the Kabylie region” is the title of her first album.
Her works include Tambourine Street and The Imaginary Lover.
She left our world on April 2, 1976 in Saint-Michel, France.
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