Tawoos Amroush: What do you know about the Algerian novelist whose birthday was celebrated by Google?

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Tawoos was born to a Berber Kabyle family who converted to Roman Catholicism

The Google search engine celebrated the birth anniversary of the Algerian writer and singer Taous Amrouche, who became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel.

Her full name is Marie-Louis Tawoos Amrouche, and she was born in 1913 and died in 1976 in Saint-Michel-L’Osservatoire, France.

Tawoos was born into a Berber tribal family that converted to Roman Catholicism, and she was the only daughter in a family of six children. Her family moved to Tunisia to escape “persecution” after they converted to Catholicism, and Tawoos grew up in a multicultural environment, as she speaks Kabyle fluently and writes in French.

The first Algerian novelist

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In addition to her passion for writing, Tawoos’ star shone in the world of music, in which she told a forgotten narrative about the Amazigh tribal world in Algeria.

Taous became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel in 1947. She is the daughter of Fatima Ait Mansour Amrouche – a famous singer in the Berber Kabylie region, who is said to have taught Taous songs and stories and taught her the oral tradition.

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