Nabile Farès

{{Short description|Algerian writer}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Nabile Farès

| birth_date = 25 September 1940

| birth_place = Collo, Algeria

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|08|30|1940|09|25|df=yes}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| relatives = James Baldwin

| notable_works= Un Passager de l'occident.

| nationality = French
Algerian

| occupation = Novelist

}}

Nabile Farès (25 September 1940 – 30 August 2016) was an Algerian-born French novelist. He was born in Collo, a part of Skikda Province, Algeria.

Farès left his studies and prepared (in the camps in Tunisia) to fight against the French towards the end of the war of independence (1960). Later he obtained his doctorate in France, with a dissertation on the role of the Ogre in North African oral literature.

His first work is the novel Yahia, pas de chance, (1970), which evolved from a manuscript Farès carried in a knapsack while on the run in several periods during and after the war of independence.[http://www.crisolenguas.uprrp.edu Crisolenguas] Vol. 1 no. 2 Later works were both novels and poetry. Among these is the trilogy of novels La Découverte du nouveau monde and his greatest novel, Un Passager de l'occident, which arises, in part, from Farès's friendship with the American writer James Baldwin.

All of Farès's work is characterized by political engagement, and particularly by a drive to expand the definition of Algeria and Algerianness—and to resist factional politics and identity politics.Bensmaïa, Experimental Nations,Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 2003 p. 25 He evokes an Algeria that is always a work in progress, and leaves the reader to reflect that personal identity (along with national) is much the same. Exile is a constant theme.Zemmouri, Dialectique de l'identité, Tanger: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique, 2007 p. 27 His poetry, in particular, is challenging and marked by visually striking inventiveness. He died in Paris on 30 August 2016 at the age of 75.{{cite journal | url=http://www.lematindz.net/news/21651-deces-de-lecrivain-nabile-fares.html | journal=Le Matin Algeria | title=Décès de l'écrivain Nabile Farès|language=fr}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.aps.dz/en/culture/14046-algerian-writer-nabil-fares-passes-away |title=Algerian writer Nabil Fares passes away |access-date=2016-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160831222834/http://www.aps.dz/en/culture/14046-algerian-writer-nabil-fares-passes-away |archive-date=2016-08-31 |url-status=dead }}