April/May 2025

Fayssal Bensalah

‘Do Not Romanticize Creative Writing’ Fayssal Bensalah’s First Draft

Algerian writer, Fayssal Bensalah, argues that the North African novel in English has not been canonized into African literature by virtue of tradition: ‘This new literary tide has been obscured both continentally and globally. Its pioneers have been kept out of African literature for a long time, and I wanted to change this by writing an essay that introduces this movement and its writers and books.’