Albert Memmi (born December 15, 1920) is a Tunisian-born French writer and essayist. December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ...

Born in colonial Tunisia from Tunisian Jewish origins, he spoke Arabic as his mother tongue. He was educated in French primary schools, and continued on to the Carnot high school in Tunis, the University of Algiers where he studied philosophy, and finally the Sorbonne in Paris. Albert Memmi found himself at the crossroads of three cultures, and based his work on the difficulty of finding a balance between the East and the West. Arabic can mean: From or related to Arabia From or related to the Arabs The Arabic language; see also Arabic grammar The Arabic alphabet, used for expressing the languages of Arabic, Persian, Malay ( Jawi), Kurdish, Panjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and Urdu, among others. ... For other uses, see Algiers (disambiguation). ... The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The Sorbonne today, from the same point of view The historic University of Paris (French: Université de Paris) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganized as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ...

Parallel with his literary work, he pursued a career as a teacher; first as a teacher at the Carnot high school in Tunis (1953) and later in France where he remained after Tunisian independence at the Practical School of Higher Studies, at HEC and at the University of Nanterre (1970). Nanterre is a French city, a suburb of Paris, and the prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine département. ...

Although having sustained the independence movement in Tunisia, he was not able to find a place in the new Muslim state.

He published his widely known first novel, an autobiography entitled "The Statue of Salt" (also translated as "The Pillar of Salt") in 1953 with a preface by Albert Camus. Albert Camus Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries (with Jean-Paul Sartre) of existentialism. ...

His best-known work is an essay on theory, with preface by Jean-Paul Sartre: "The Colonizer and the Colonized", published in 1957 and which appeared at the time as a support to the independence movements. This work showed how the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized conditioned each to the other. Jean Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905–April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. ...

He is also known for the "Anthology of Maghrebian literature" (written in collaboration) published in 1965 (vol. 1) and 1969 (vol. 2).