Albert Memmi

Albert Memmi was born in Tunis in 1920 and settled in France after the Second World War. He was an internationally renowned fiction writer, essayist, teacher and social commentator, recipient of the Legion D'Honneur and recognised by the Académie Française for the whole of his work. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, just west of Paris, on the 22nd of May 2020 at the age of ninety-nine.

Albert Memmi was born in Tunis in 1920 and settled in France after the Second World War. He was an internationally renowned fiction writer, essayist, teacher and social commentator, recipient of the Legion D'Honneur and recognised by the Académie Française for the whole of his work. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, just west of Paris, on the 22nd of May 2020 at the age of ninety-nine. See less