Editing Mohammed Dib (section)

===Novels===
His debut novel ''La grande maison'' was the first part of the ''Algerian trilogy'' about a large Algerian family. The main protagonist, Omar, is a young boy growing up in poverty in Algeria just before [[World War II]]. The [[trilogy]] is presented in a naturalistic style similar to that of [[Émile Zola]]. The second part, ''L'Incendie'', published in the same year the Algerian revolution started, was about Omar's life during the second World War. The final part of the trilogy, ''Le Métier à tisser'', deals with Omar's adult life as a working man in Algeria. It was published in 1957. The trilogy was partly autobiographical.

His later works did not always use the same naturalistic framework of his earlier novels, often adding surrealistic elements. He used [[science fiction]] in ''Qui se souvient de la mer'' (1962), and [[Poetry|verse]] in his last novel ''L.A. Trip''.

From 1985 to 1994 he wrote four semi-autobiographical novels about a North African man who visits a Nordic country, has a relationship and child with a woman in this country. The last novel in this series deals with the child visiting her fathers homeland. Dib also helped to translate into French various Finnish books.