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Assia Djebar
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French Algerian writer and film director (1936-2015)
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Assia Djebar (born Fatima-Zohra Imalhayène in Cherchell, Algeria, on 30 June 1936) was a French-Algerian linguist, film director, professor, and translator. She wrote in French and was educated at Lycée Fénelon and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Djebar served as a professor at New York University and the University of Algiers 1. She was a member of the Académie Française and the Academie Royale de Langue et de littérature Françaises, as well as the Workers' Party.
Her notable works include *Le blanc de l'Algérie*, *Les Alouettes Naives*, *Amor, la fantasía, el*, *Sombra sultana*, and *Grande es la prisión*. Djebar received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, the Knight of the Legion of Honour, and the Grand prix de la francophonie. She was married to Malek Alloula and died in the 19th arrondissement of Paris on 6 February 2015.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 51
Top works
- Le blanc de l'Algérie
- Les Alouettes Naives
- Amor, la fantasía, el
- Sombra sultana
- Grande es la prisión
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Film & TV
Directing · Cherchell, Algérie
Assia Djebar (آسيا جبار), pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalhayène, born June 30, 1936 in Cherchell in Algeria and died February 6, 2015 in Paris, is an Algerian woman of letters, she obtained French nationality in 1967. She is considered one of the most famous and influential authors in the Maghreb. She was elected to the French Academy in 2005, becoming the first North African writer to be admitted…
Known for
- Rencontre avec Assia Djebar — Self1987
- Mosaïque — Self1976
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A three-dimensional nanofibrous scaffold for cartilage tissue engineering using human mesenchymal stem cells
· 2005 · cited 800x
- Fluoxetine for motor recovery after acute ischaemic stroke (FLAME): a randomised placebo-controlled trial
· 2011 · cited 783x
- Posterior capsule opacification
· 1992 · cited 735x
- Superior control of HIV-1 replication by CD8+ T cells is reflected by their avidity, polyfunctionality, and clonal turnover
· 2007 · cited 607x
- Factors Affecting Auditory Performance of Postlinguistically Deaf Adults Using Cochlear Implants: An Update with 2251 Patients
· 2012 · cited 596x
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Quotes
- “Like many writers, I use my culture and I collect several imaginary worlds.””
- “First it was the language of the enemy,, “then it became a kind of stepmother, in relation to the maternal tongue of Arabic.”
- “there were only men in the streets of Algiers.”
- “Each of my books is a step towards the understanding of the North African identity and an attempt to enter modernity.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (Arabic: فاطمة الزهراء إيمالاين; 30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015), known by her pen name Assia Djebar (Arabic: آسيا جبار), was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. She is "frequently associated with women's writing movements, her novels are clearly focused on the creation of a genealogy of Algerian women, and her political stance is virulently anti-patriarchal as much as it is anti-colonial." Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers. She was elected to the Académie Française on 16 June 2005, the first writer from the Maghreb to achieve such recognition. For the entire body of her work she was awarded the 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She was often named as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Early life
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