Taos Amrouche

Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche (March 1913 – 2 April 1976) was an Algerian writer and singer. In 1947, she became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel.
She was born in Tunis, Tunisia, into a family of Kabyle Roman Catholic converts, the only daughter in a family of six sons."Marguerite Taos Amrouche", Encyclopædia Britannica. Her family had moved to Tunisia to escape persecution after their conversion in Algeria.
Her mother Fadhma Aït Mansour,... meer