- Birthday
- 1941-02-03
- Deathday
- 2020-08-29
- Place of Birth
- Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]
Frédéric Musso
WritingBiography
Frédéric Musso (3 February 1941 – 5 September 2020) was an Algerian-born French writer, poet, and journalist. Musso was born in Algiers to a family of Sardinian descent. He studied at the Collège Notre-Dame-d'Afrique in Algiers, where he discovered the works of Victor Hugo. After failing in his higher studies, he turned to writing and journalism. He began his writing career working for Claude Tenne, a member of the Organisation armée secrète and evading prison on Île de Ré, for his work on Mais le Diable marche avec nous. He wrote his first novel, La Déesse, in the 1960s, although it was not ...