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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, 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. Her professional career included teaching at the University of Algiers 1 and New York University. She was a member of the Académie Française, the Academie Royale de Langue et de littérature Françaises, and the Workers' Party.
Djebar received several awards, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, the Grand prix de la francophonie, and the Knight of the Legion of Honour. She was married to Malek Alloula. Her notable works include *Le blanc de l'Algérie*, *Les Alouettes Naives*, *Amor, la fantasía, el*, *Sombra sultana*, and *Grande es la prisión*. She died in the 19th arrondissement of Paris on February 6, 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
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Algeria
- Place of birth
- Cherchell
- Place of death
- 19th arrondissement of Paris
- Spouse
- Malek Alloula
- Occupation
- historian
- Employer
- University of Algiers 1
- Political party
- Workers' Party
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Image
- Assia-Djebar (cropped).jpg
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- date of death
- 2015-02-06
- Commons category
- Assia Djebar
- date of birth
- 1936-06-30
- name in native language
- Assia Djebar
- birth name
- فاطمة الزهراء إيمالاين
- pseudonym
- Assia Djebar
- writing language
- French
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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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