Nina Bouraoui was born Yasmina Bouraoui in Rennes, France, in 1967. She has an Algerian father and a French mother, and spent most of her childhood in Algeria, though is commonly referred to as a French author. Bouraoui’s family moved to Algeria from France when she was two years old, and then back to France when she was fourteen (owing to her mother’s ill health). Many of her published texts deal with her divided cultural heritage and the difficulty of fitting into a community, and several are set in Algeria. Bouraoui also writes of homosexuality, a personal experience which is often fictionalised in her work. She has published a number of autobiographical or semi-autobiographical texts, and a number of her works deal with issues that she herself has experienced. This has led critics…
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Citation: Vassallo, Helen. "Nina Bouraoui". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 31 August 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13353, accessed 20 April 2024.]
