Marguerite Taos Amrouche

Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche (born 4 March 1913 in Tunis, Tunisia; died 2 April 1976 in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, France) was an Algerian writer and singer. In 1947, she became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel.
She was born to 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.... meer