Mouloud Achour

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Mouloud Achour (Arabic: مولود عاشور) (19 March 1944 – 24 December 2020) was an Algerian writer, professor, and journalist.^[1][2]

Mouloud Achour
مولود عاشور
Achour in 2012
Born	19 March 1944 Timizart, French Algeria
Died	24 December 2020(2020-12-24) (aged 76)
Nationality	Algerian
Occupation(s)	Writer Professor Journalist

Biography

Achour served as a member and then chairman of the executive council of the Public Establishment of Television.^[3] He also directed the cabinet for the Ministry of Communications.^[4] He served as editorial director of Casbah Éditions in Algiers, and was responsible for overseeing books published in Algeria in 2003.^[5]

Mouloud Achour died on 24 December 2020, at the age of 76 from COVID-19.^[6][7]

Publications

• Le Survivant et autres nouvelles (1971)
• Héliotropes (1973)
• Les Dernières Vendanges (1975)
• Jours de tourments (1983)
• Farès Boukhatem : rétrospective (1989)
• À perte de mots (1996)
• Algériens-Français : bientôt finis les enfantillages ? (2003)
• Le Vent du nord (2004)
• Juste derrière l'horizon (2005)
• Le Retour au silence (2011)
• Les dernières vendanges - Récit et nouvelles (2013)
• Un automne au soleil - Textes libres (2016)