Mirzaq Biqtash (13 June 1945 – 2 January 2021) (Arabic:مرزاق بقطاش), Algerian writer and novelist. He published more than fifteen novels, translations, and short stories. His last work was the novel "The Rain Writers His Biography", which won the Assia Djebar Prize for Fiction in its third session, 2017. He died on 2 January 2021, at the age of 75.
Education and career
Mirzaq Biqtash was born on 13 June 1945 in the Ain Al-Badra neighborhood in the Algiers. He began learning Arabic from a youn...