Myriam Ben, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Myriam Ben

Algerian novelist and poet

Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1928

Place of Birth: Algiers, Algiers Province, Algeria

Date of Death: 19-Nov-2001

Profession: writer, woman of letters

Nationality: Algeria

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Myriam Ben (1928–2001) was an Algerian activist, militant, novelist, poet, and painter.
She was born Marylise Ben Haïm in Algiers on October 10, 1928.
Her father was a communist who had served in the French army during the October revolution, and her mother was a musician.
She was raised in a non-religious household, recalling later that she was seven years old before she realized her family was Jewish.
In 1940, the Vichy French regime revoked the 19th century Crémieux Decree, so depriving Jewish Algerians of citizenship and resulting in Ben's expulsion from the lycée she had been attending in Algiers.
She briefly attended a Jewish school, but completed her education at home due to her father's opposition to Zionism.