While looking for the earliest crime fiction novel I could possibly find published by an Algerian novelist and/or in Algeria, I came across the name of Ahmed Chenouf-Boudi. Chenouf-Boudi, a journalist from Batna, is known to have published a number of crime/spy short stories in the newspaper An-Nasr in 1967, and from 1968 in the newspaper Algérie Actualités. Unfornutately no national archive holds these weeklies, and none of his stories was published in book format. Perhaps that one day, I'll find a copy of either papers and will be able to read and publish the stories, but in the meantime here is what we know. Chenouf-Boudi published a short story recounting an investigation. The title is ' Le fellah, l'ex-tirailleur et le commissaire politique ' (The Fellah, the ex-skirmisher, and the political commander), published in An-Nasr, on 20 septembre 1967 et 7 octobre 1967. When this newspaper first appeared, it was produced in French, it moved to Arabic a few ye...
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