An international colloquium on Algerian literature under the theme "Algerian Literature, Why?" Hosted by Algerian academics and Japanese and South Korean specialists, will be held on 25 and 26 March at the University of Tokyo,

Organized by the Japanese Maghreb Literature Society and the Department of Contemporary Literary Studies of the University of Tokyo in collaboration with the Korean Association of Maghreb Literature, this colloquium will be devoted to the works of Assia Djebar and Mouloud Feraoun, two great figures of the Algerian literature.

Conferences and round tables will be jointly hosted by Algerian, Japanese and Korean academics at the University of Tokyo's Hongöô Campus.

The international colloquium on Algerian literature is organized after the Japanese translation of the work "The son of the poor" by Mouloud Feraoun by the Japanese academic, Etsuko Aoyagi