M'hamed Benguettaf
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M'hamed Benguettaf - Mohamed Benguettaf (or M'hamed Benguettaf) born December 20, 1939 is a notable figure in Algerian theater and cinema, first as an actor, M'Hamed Benguettaf worked for radio then spent a large part of his career at Algerian National Theater, before being among the founders of the company Masrah El Kalâa - Théâtre de la Citadelle. Also as translator or adapter of Nazim Hikmet, Kateb Yacine, Ali Salem, Mahmoud Diab or Ray Bradbury, Benguettaf believes he has completed the first major stage of his journey which he likens, in his own words, to "a professional training course" , a stage through which he believes he has gathered the tools of his own language and has now forged his voice as a playwright. In 2003, his contemporary adaptation of "Don Quixote, The Man Who Had Nothing to Do with It", an Algerian-French co-production which received the Djazaïr label, a year of Algeria in France. Since 2004, Mohamed Benguettaf has directed the Algerian National Theater. He died in Algiers on January 5, 2014.
