Kateb yasin ilul ass n 6 ɣuct aseggas 1929 di temdint n Qsenṭina, deg usamer n tmurt n Lezzayer. Mbeɛd mi yekcem ɣer uɣerbaz n uselmed n Leqqran aseggas n 1936, yuɣal yekcem ɣer wulmud deg uɣerbaz n tesnawit afransawi.
Di 8 maggu 1945, yesεa 15 yiseggasen kan di leεmer-is, yekki di tmesbanit-nni i d-yellan deg temdint n Sṭif mgal lbaṭel imahrasen n tmurt n Fransa, yugi tudert n ddel. Dɣa yettwaḥbes 4 wagguren. Yemma-s tɣil dayen yettwanɣa, dɣa ifukk fell-as usirem, tesleb. Tkemmel ussan-is di sbiṭar n Blida. Aseggas n 1946, yessufeɣ-d adlis-ines amezwaru, d amud n isefra. Di 1948, yuɣal d aneɣmas deg uɣmis Alger Républicain. Aseggas n 1951, yunag ɣer tmurt n Fransa. Di 1955, yessufeɣ-d yiwen n udlis Le cadavre encerclé. Aseggas mbeεd, di 1956, yessufeɣ-d adlis-nni yettwassnen ugar wiyaḍ,; win i as-yernan azal, wagi d Nedjma di tizrigin n Seuil. Aseggas 1959, yessufeɣ-d Le cercle des représailles.
Gar yiseggasen n 1966 d 1970, yerna yessufeɣ-d sin n yedlisen-nniḍen, wigi Le polygone étoilé akked L’homme aux sandales de caoutchouc. Asmi i d-yuɣal Yasin Kateb yettidir di Lzzayer, yeṭṭaxer i tira n yedlisen, yuɣal yettaru amezgun s tutlayt n taεrabt n Lezzayer, dɣa yesbedd yiwet n tdukla n umezgun d netta i yellan ɣef uqerruy-is. Gar tceqqufin-ines yettwassnen ; Rrfed tabalizt-ik a Muḥ (1971), Tiɣri n tlawin aseggas (1972), Ṭrad n 2000 yiseggasen (1974), Palestine yettwaxedεen (1975).
Kateb Yasin yecrew-d aṭas n warrazen s tegzi-s. Aseggas n 1963, yewwi arraz n Jean Amrouche, i d-tsuddes tamdint n Florence n tmurt n Ṭelyan. Aseggas n 1975, yewwi arraz n Lotus n yimyura. Aseggas n 1980, yewwi arraz amenzu n yizem i umezgun, Académie Simba et Corriere Africano. Aseggas n 1987, yewwi arraz ameqqran aɣelnaw n tsekla i as-tefka taɣlift n yedles n tmurt n Fransa.
Ayen i d-yeğğa Kateb Yasin d aggeruj ur nettfakka, tisutwin i d-iteddun ad t-id-afen. Yasin yemmut deg waggur n tuber aseggas 1989 di temdint n Grenoble, tamurt n Fransa. Yuklal ayen yugaren tajmilt acku d netta id ajgu n tsekla Tazzayrit.
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