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| death_place = [[Algiers]], [[Algeria]]<br />
| death_cause = Assassination<br />
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'''Tahar Djaout''' ({{langx|kab|Ṭaher Ǧaɛut}}, 11 January 1954 – 2 June 1993) was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He was assassinated in 1993 by the [[Armed Islamic Group of Algeria|Armed Islamic Group]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
He was born in 1954 in [[Aït Chafâa|Oulkhou]], a village in the [[Kabylie]] region. After university he worked as a journalist for ''Algérie Actualité'', and by the late 1980s, he became one of Algeria's foremost literary talents.<ref name="McDougall2017">{{cite book|author=James McDougall|author-link=James McDougall (academic)|title=A History of Algeria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3-CBDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA290|date=24 April 2017|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-85164-0|pages=290}}</ref><br />
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==Assassination==<br />
{{Main article|Algerian Civil War}}<br />
He was assassinated by the [[Armed Islamic Group]] because of his support of [[secularism]] and opposition to what he considered fanaticism. He was attacked on 26 May 1993 as he was leaving his home in [[Algiers]], Algeria. He died on 2 June, after lying in a coma for a week. One of his attackers professed that he was murdered because he "wielded a fearsome pen that could have an effect on Islamic sectors."<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last= Tolan |editor1-first= Fiona<br />
|editor2-last= Morton |editor2-first= Stephen<br />
|editor3-last= Valassopoulos |editor3-first=Anastasia<br />
|display-editors = 3 |editor4-last= Spencer |editor4-first= Robert |title= Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror |date= September 13, 2013<br />
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=WVLcAAAAQBAJ&q=%22wielded+a+fearsome+pen+that+could+have+an+effect+on+Islamic+sectors.%22&pg=PA141|publisher= Routledge|pages= 176|isbn= 978-0415845687}}</ref><br />
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After his death the BBC made a documentary about him entitled 'Shooting the Writer', introduced by [[Salman Rushdie]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Looking back at Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses {{!}} Salman Rushdie {{!}} The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/sep/14/looking-at-salman-rushdies-satanic-verses |access-date=2022-05-26 |website=amp.theguardian.com|date=14 September 2012 }}</ref><br />
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== Work ==<br />
* ''[[The Last Summer of Reason]]'' Novel, [[Ruminator Books]], 2001] (French edn: Le dernier été de la raison, Paris, [[Seuil]], 1999] <br />
* ''The Watchers'' [Novel, Ruminator Books] (French edn: Les Vigiles, Editions du Seuil, 1991)<br />
* ''L'invention du Desert'', [Novel, Editions du Seuil, 1987]<br />
* ''Les Chercheurs d'Os'' [Novel, Editions du Seuil, 1984]<br />
* ''Les Rets de l'oiseleur'' (short stories) [SNED, Algiers, 1983]<br />
* ''L'oiseau minéral'', poems, [Sigean, L'Orycte, 1982]<br />
* ''L'exproprié'', [Novel, SNED, Algiers, 1981]<br />
* ''Insulaire et Cie'', poems [Sigean, L'Orycte, 1980]<br />
* ''L'Arche à vau-l'eau'', poems [Editions Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, 1978]<br />
* ''Solstice Barbelé'', poems, [Editions Naaman, Québec, 1975]<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[List of Algerian assassinated journalists]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
* Tahar Djaout [http://www.grijalvo.com/Ziane-Khodja/b_ziane_khodja_fotos_tahar_djaout.htm]<br />
* Silence is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout [http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Silence-Is-Death,671918.aspx]{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} by Julija Sukys [http://julijasukys.com]<br />
* "Islamists Killed Tahar Djaout: We Should Give Life to His Ideas," by Jennifer Bryson, January 16, 2009, [https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2009/01/98/]<br />
* Ali Chibani, ''Tahar Djaout et Lounis Aït Menguellet. Temps clos et ruptures spatiales,'' Paris, L'Harmattan, 2012. [http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=36610]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:People from Aït Chafâa]]<br />
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[[Category:Algerian male poets]]<br />
[[Category:Assassinated Algerian journalists]]<br />
[[Category:People killed by Islamic terrorism]]<br />
[[Category:Algerian critics of religions]]<br />
[[Category:Critics of Islamism]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Algerian poets]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Algerian male writers]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Algerian journalists]]<br />
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