On this day in 1913, the Algerian writer and singer was born Tawoos AmroushThe search engine Google celebrated it and changed its logo on its home page. In our next report, we get to know the writer Tawoos Amroush..
Tawoos Amroush
Her name is Marie-Louis Tawoos Amroush, she was originally born in Tunisia, and she died on April 2, 1976 in Saint-Michel, France. She is the only daughter in a family of six children.
Her mother, Fatima Mansour, was a famous singer among the Berber tribes, and this had a great impact on Mary in her life and in her literary style, which reflects the traditions of the Berber tribes of her mother’s heritage.
Tawoos Amroush
Taous Amrouche is the first Algerian novelist
Marie became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel in 1947. She is the daughter of Fatima Ait Mansour Amrouche and the sister of Jean Amrouche..
Mary was educated 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.
Marie began translating Kabyle songs in cooperation with her older brother, John Amrouche, and her mother in 1936. In 1939, at the Chant Conference in Fez, Marie received a scholarship to study in Spain, and there she conducted research on the relationship between Berber and Spanish folk songs..
She published her first autobiographical novel, “The Black Sapphire,” in 1947. It is the first novel of its kind to be published in France by a Maghreb writer..
Tawoos Amroush