My name Amar Boukhroufa my pen name Djamel jiji, I am an Algerian Fantasy and SF writer and screenwriter. I was born on 29 February in the eastern city of Tebessa, where I began my secondary education at the Malik Bani Nabi School in Tebessa. Then I joined Ferhat Abbas University in Setif, 300 km from the capital. . I joined the Faculty of electronic engineering department at Setif University. After that I quit the engineering department and I returned to Annaba University, where I did my bachelor’s degree in international law. After that I joined foreign languages department at Annaba University; in technical English.
In 1999 I wrote my first book in Arabic called غزاة الاحلام it was a science-fiction novella. The invaders of dreams’ in English
In 2009 I published my first novel in France with www.jetsdencre.fr editions . After I had published my first book in France I wrote my first screenplay based on my own book in French first then I wrote it in English and in Arabic too.
2011 I won my first literary prize in Lebanon. In the same year I was a semi-finalist with my first screenplay THE INVADERS OF DREAMS in the www.writemovies.com contest in Paris.
After the publication of my first novella, I spent six years looking for a producer. In 2015 I published the second part of ‘The Invaders of Dreams’ withwww.edilivre.com in France. In this book I unveiled the danger of weapons of mass destruction against innocent children. I invented a new fantasy character which doesn’t exist in first part.
Welcome Djamel !