Everything about Assia Djebar totally explained
Assia Djebar is the pen-name of
Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (born
June 30,
1936), an
Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with the obstacles faced by women, and she's 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 Thirst). (Fearing her father's disapproval, she'd 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.
In
1962 Djebar published
Les Enfants du Nouveau Monde, and in
1967 Les Alouettes Naïves. She remarried in
1980, to the Algerian poet
Malek Alloula; they live in Paris.
In
1996 she won the prestigious
Neustadt Prize for Contribution to World Literature, and the next year, the
Yourcenar Prize.
Djebar is currently a professor of Francophone literature at NYU. She has consistently been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature over the past several years.
In 2005 she was accepted into the
Académie Française, a highly prestigious institution charged with guarding the heritage of the French Language.
Bibliography
- La Soif, 1957
- Les impatients, 1958
- Les Enfants du Nouveau Monde, 1962
- Les Alouettes naïves, 1967
- Poème pour une algérie heureuse, 1969
- Rouge l'aube
- L'Amour, la fantasia, 1985
- Ombre sultane 1987
- Loin de Médine, 1991
- Vaste est la prison, 1995
- Le blanc de l'Algérie, 1996
- Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement, 2002
- La femme sans sépulture, 2002
- La disparition de la langue française, 2003
Cinema
La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua, 1977
La Zerda ou les chants de l'oubli, 1979Further Information
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