Exploring the Black Decade of Algeria With Poet, Dihya Lwiz

Dihya Lwiz is a novelist and a poet who wrote in the Kabyle language and in Arabic, residing in Algeria. Marcia Lynx Qualey interviewed Lwiz in 2014 to discuss her exploration of the “black decade” in her fiction.

Dihya Lwiz passed away in 30 June 2017, aged 32, from cancer. She regularly published her poems on facebook, and her last publication was the below poem:

So Then We Have Not Yet Begun by Dihya LwizSo then we have not yet begunThe road toward wisdomThe road toward freedomFor those we always look onhow is it all so easyIt seems, for us it never isWe do not know whyWe refuse to leave yesterdayWe like habitsWe like destructionAmong all the good there isWe like the twisted things in which we liveWe fear we’ll changeBecause perhaps then it will change

To honor the memory of Dihya Lwiz, several national newspapers from from Algeria republished this last piece in the days that followed her funeral, and readers published their translations of it to the French language. Arab Lit Quarterly translates it awkwardly to English here, to give a sense of the themes she explored in her novels and poetry.

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