Career
Ouettar was called "one of the North African nation’s most prolific Arabic language authors". Born into a Berber family in Sedrata, he was a supporter of arabization in the wake of Algerian independence. The essence of his project, he once said, was to “liberate Algerian identity to make it Arab-Berber-Islamic.” He denounced Algeria"s French-language writers as "vestiges of colonialism".
Ouettar published his first novel "First Rate (at Lloyd's) Laz" in 1974.
The Earthquake, translations by William Granara, Saqi Books (2000).