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Assia Djebar is the pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (born August 4, 1936), an Algerian novelist, translator and filmaker. Most of her works deal with the obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's most famous and influential writers, and was elected to the Académie française on June 16, 2005, the first writer from the Maghreb to achieve such recognition.
Early life
Djebar was born in Cherchell, a small coastal town near Algiers. She attended the primary school where her father taught French, and attended secondary school elsewhere in Algeria. In 1955, She was the first Algerian woman to be accepted at the École Normale Supérieure, an elite college in Paris.
Career
In 1957, she published her first novel, La Soif (The Mischief). (Fearing her father's disapproval, she had it published under the pen name Assia Djebar.) Another, Les Impatients, followed the next year. Also in 1958, she and Ahmed Ould-Rouïs began a marriage that eventually ended in divorce. More on [ Assia Djebar ]
Assia Djebar's vast oeuvre - http://tinyurl.com/yc4muo7
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Assia Djebar's vast oeuvre - http://tinyurl.com/yc4muo7
Algerian White - Publisher's presentation.
Meta Description: [ In Algerian White, Assia Djebar recounts the history of Algeria from its 1956 struggle for independence to the present. ]
Assia Djebar - Short biography, description of Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade, selected bibliography.
Assia Djebar (*1936) - Biography, selective bibliography.
Research in African Lit - Assia Djebar's Algerian Quartet - Assia Djebar's Algerian Quartet: A Study in Fragmented Autobiography. By Mildred Mortimer.
Translating the Untranslated: Djebar's Le blanc de l'Algerie - Research in African Literature 30:3. Article by John Erickson.
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment: Stories by Assia Djebar - Description of the book by Assia Djebar with excerpts from reviews and brief biographical information.
Write or Flight - A review of Assia Djebar's novel So Vast the Prison by Claire Messud.
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