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Zoulikha Saoudi 20 December 1943 - 22 November 1972 "I was born in 1944, and followed my first years of study at the mosque of Sidi Lazhar's koranic school, in the city of Khenchela … At 9 years of age, I transferred to primary school in Khenchela. My first teacher was Belkacem Djebaili, and the man of letters Mahboub Boutaleb - it is he who encouraged me to read and guided me toward literature. At the end of my fourth year of study, I obtained my CEP certificate. I was 13 years-old then, and from that time I stayed confined at home. I could no longer go out, my only reason to live became reading and my thirst for knowledge… In 1957, I collected a few prose poems in a little notebook, a collection I called 'Revelations of Pain'. Three years later, in 1960, I scribbled an additional seven short-stories in a second notebook, the themes of which were society and women's struggles within it. I called it 'Sketches of awareness' ." ( extract of a

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