Fettouma Touati
Fettouma Touati is an Algerian-French novelist writing in French.Life
Fettouma Touati was born in Azazoa, a small mountainous village in the Kabylia region of Algeria. Her parents emigrated to France in 1951, before the Algerian War of Independence. In 1975 she returned to Kabylia for four years, and worked as a librarian in the University of Tizi Ouzou.
Her novel Le printemps désespéré charted the lives of three generations of Algerian women, highlighting the way in which a network of women's relationships supported them in coping with the recurrent racism and sexism suffered by Algerian women.Works
