Editing Lounès Matoub (section)

==Prizes==

[[File:Matoub Lounès (in the middle ) with his friends.jpg|right|270px|thumb|Lounès (in the middle with the white shirt) with his friends, notably Mourad Nechab, known to be his favorite, and family in [[Kabylia]].]]

*On 6 December 1994, Matoub received ''Le Prix de la Mémoire'' ("The Memorial Prize") from Mrs. [[Danielle Mitterrand]], President of ''La Fondation France Libertés'' ("The French Liberties Foundation") in Paris; the prize recognises those who devote themselves to recording and preserving the impact of political events on ordinary lives.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Aïtel |first=Fazia |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/We_Are_Imazighen/n37SEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Le%20Prix%20de%20la%20M%C3%A9moire%20matoub&pg=PA161&printsec=frontcover |title=We Are Imazighen: The Development of Algerian Berber Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture |date=2014-11-04 |publisher=[[University Press of Florida]] |isbn=978-0-8130-4895-6 |pages=161 |language=en}}</ref>
*On 22 March 1995, the Canadian journalists' organisation SCIJ awarded him ''Le Prix de la Liberté d'Expression'' ("The Prize for Freedom of Expression").<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ilahiane |first=Hsain |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Historical_Dictionary_of_the_Berbers_Ima/aRYuDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Le%20Prix%20de%20la%20Libert%C3%A9%20d'Expression%20matoub&pg=PA144&printsec=frontcover |title=Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen) |date=2017-03-27 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=978-1-4422-8182-0 |pages=143-144 |language=en}}</ref>
*On 19 December 1995, he received ''Le Prix Tahar Djaout'' ("The [[Tahar Djaout]] Prize") from ''La Fondation Nourredine Abba'' ("The Nourredine Abba Foundation") at UNESCO headquarters in Paris; the prize is named after an Algerian writer who was assassinated by Islamists in 1993.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sueur |first=James D. Le |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Algeria_since_1989/RPxiDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Algeria since 1989: Between Terror and Democracy |date=2013-04-04 |publisher=Zed Books Ltd. |isbn=978-1-84813-610-6 |pages=188 |language=en}}</ref>