Jean el Mouhoub Amrouche was born February 7, 1906, in
Ighil Ali, in the
valley of Soumman, in
petite Kabylie to a
Kabyle family that had converted to
Roman Catholicism. Amrouche emigrated with his family to
Tunisia while still young. He was the older brother of fellow writer
Taos Amrouche. Both were the children of
Fadhma Aït Mansour, author of
History of My Life. He died on 16 April 1962 at his home in Paris; he is buried in Sargé-sur-Braye in Loir-et-Cher. == Selected works ==