Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (born 1941) is an Angolan writer who writes stories. He is known by the name Pepetela. Pepetela was born in Benguela, Portuguese Angola, and was a Portuguese Angolan.
Ndalu de Almeida, born on July 5, 1977, is an Angolan writer who is known by the pen name Ondjaki. He has written poetry, children’s books, short stories, novels, plays, and film scripts.
Sousa Jamba was born in 1966 in Dondi, Huambo, in central Angola. His family supported the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which fought with the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during the Angolan War of Independence (1961–75). Later, UNITA fought against the MPLA during the civil war (1975–2002).
José Eduardo Agualusa Alves da Cunha was born on December 13, 1960. He is an Angolan writer and columnist with Portuguese and Brazilian heritage. He studied agronomy and silviculture in Lisbon, Portugal.
Gaius Petronius Arbiter ( / p ɪ ˈ t r oʊ n i ə s / ; Classical Latin: [ ˈɡaːiʊs pɛˈtroːniʊs arbɪtɛr ] ; around 27 to around 66 AD; sometimes called Titus Petronius Niger) was a Roman official during the time of Emperor Nero (ruled 54–68 AD). He is usually thought to have written the Satyricon, a humorous story believed to have been created during Nero’s rule. He is a key character in Henryk Sienkiewicz’s historical novel Quo Vadis (1895).
Apuleius (pronounced AP-yoo-LEE-us), also known as Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (born around 124 and died after 170), was a Roman writer, philosopher, and speaker who lived in the Roman province of Numidia. He was born in the Berber city of Madauros, which is now called M’Daourouch in Algeria. He studied philosophy in Athens, traveled to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and was part of several secret religious groups.
Kateb Yacine (born on August 2, 1929 or August 6, 1929; died on October 28, 1989) was an Algerian writer known for writing novels and plays in both French and Algerian Arabic. He was also recognized for supporting the rights of the Berber people.
Leïla Sebbar was born on November 9, 1941, in Aflou. She is the daughter of a French mother and an Algerian father. She grew up in French Algeria and left for Paris when she was seventeen.
Rachid Mimouni (Arabic: رشيد ميموني; November 20, 1945 – February 12, 1995) was an Algerian writer, teacher, and human rights activist. Mimouni wrote novels that showed Algerian society in a realistic way. He faced threats from Islamic militants because he opposed a movement he believed was based on old-fashioned ideas that were not relevant to modern times.
Mouloud Mammeri was born on December 28, 1917, in Ait Yenni, Tizi Ouzou Province, French Algeria. He attended primary school in his village before moving to Morocco to live with his uncle in Rabat. Four years later, he returned to Algiers and studied at Bugeaud College.