An Interview with the algerian writer Habib Tengour “Writing is a duty of testimony and I like to subvert hagiography in my texts”

Abstract

From the height of his seventy-five years of life, of which he devoted more than forty years to
writing and literary creation, the great algerian writer Habib Tengour gives us in this interview some keys of his
rich protean texts. This interview celebrates the crowning of Tengour’s poetic work by the prestigious
European Benjamin Fondane Prize and the publication of the collective work “Les portes du Poème” which
pays tribute to the artist writer and his unique pen.