Hamid Nacer-Khodja (حميد ناصر خوجة), born January 25, 1953 in Palestro (Algeria) and died September 16, 2016 in Djelfa, is an Algerian writer, academic and poet.

Hamid Nacer-Khodja completed his primary, secondary and higher education (National School of Administration) in Algiers. After having exercised numerous responsibilities within the local administration, he reoriented himself and undertook studies in Modern Literature at the Sorbonne, then at the University of Montpellier-III where he successively wrote a DEA thesis then a thesis on Jean Sénac art critic. After obtaining his thesis in comparative literature (defended in 2005 under the supervision of Professor Guy Dugas), he taught in the language department at the University of Djelfa where he directed the Institute of Letters and Languages. A poet himself, he is particularly attached to the edition and analysis of the work of Jean Sénac.

The academic and poet died on the night of September 16, 2016 in Djelfa following an illness, according to the APS press agency.

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