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Kateb Yacine was an Franco-Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic dialect, and his advocacy of the Berber cause. Kateb Yacine was officially born on August 6, in Constantine, though it is likely that his birth occurred four days earlier.

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Although his birth name is Yacine Kateb, he once said that he was so used to hearing his teachers calling out names with the last name first that he adopted Kateb Yacine as a pen name. Kateb Yacine was born into a scholarly maraboutic Berber family from Sedrata[1] in western Souk Ahras. His father was a lawyer, and the family followed him through his various assignments in different parts of the country.

Three days later he was placed under arrest and imprisoned for two months. From that point on he became a partisan for the nationalist cause. While living with Nedjma he published his first collection of poetry in He returned to Paris where he would stay until During the Algerian War of Independence, Yacine was forced to travel abroad for a long time due to the harassment he faced from the DST.

After a stay in Cairo, Yacine returned again to Algeria in , shortly after the independence celebrations. The same year Yacine returned to make a more permanent home in Algeria.