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Assia Djebar : biography

30 June 1936 –

Assia Djebar is the pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (born 30 June 1936), 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.

Awards

In 1996, Djebar won the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature for her contribution to world literature. The following year, she took home the Yourcenar Prize. In 2000, she won the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

Works

  • 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 (translated as Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, Heinemann 1993)
  • Ombre sultane 1987 (translated by Dorothy Blair as A Sister to Scheherazade, Heinemann 1987)
  • Loin de Médine, (translated by Dorothy Blair as Far from Medina 1991)
  • Vaste est la prison, 1995 (translated by Betsy Wing as So Vast the Prison: A Novel, 2001)
  • Le blanc de l’Algérie, 1996.
  • Oran, langue morte, 1997 (translated by Tegan Raleigh as The Tongue’s Blood Does Not Run Dry: Algerian Stories, 2006)
  • Les Nuits de Strasbourg, 1997
  • Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement (translated by Marjolijn de Jager as Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, 2002)
  • La femme sans sépulture, 2002
  • La disparition de la langue française, 2003
  • Nulle part dans la maison de mon père, 2008

Cinema

  • La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua, 1977
  • La Zerda ou les chants de l’oubli, 1979

Analysis

  • Aïssaoui, Mohammed: « De l’Algérie à l’Académie ». In: Le Figaro, Vendredi June 17, 2005, p 34
  • Bédarida, Catherine: « L’Académie française ouvre ses portes à Assia Djebar. ». In: Le Monde, Samedi June 18, p 30
  • Brossard, Nicole, Louise H. Forsyth et al.: Mises en scène d’écrivains. Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Les éditions Le Griffon d’argile, collection Trait d’union, 1993
  • Calle-Gruber, Mireille: « Refaire les contes dans la langue adverse. Assia Djebar, Oran, langue morte ». In: Ruhe, Ernstpeter: Assia Djebar. Studien zur Literatur und Geschichte des Maghreb. Band 5. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2001, pp 157–167
  • Chikhi, Beïda: Assia Djebar. , June 25, 2005
  • -: Les romans d’Assia Djebar. Algiers: Offices des publications universitaires, 1990
  • -: Assia Djebar. Histoires et fantaisies. Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 2006
  • Clerc, Jeanne-Marie: Assia Djebar : écrire, transgresser, résister. Paris/Montreal: L’Harmattan, 1997
  • Geyss, Roswitha: Bilinguisme littéraire et double identité dans la littérature maghrébine de langue française : le cas d’Assia Djebar et de Leïla Sebbar. Vienna University, Thesis (Diplomarbeit), S/D Zohra Bouchentouf-Siagh, 2006 (400 pages) (available at the university library Vienna – UB Wien -, at the library of the department of romanistik studies Vienna – Fachbereichsbibliothek für Romanistik -; this excellent work will soon be published!)
  • -: « Bilinguisme / plurilinguisme littéraire et « double identité » dans la littérature maghrébine féminine : le cas d’Assia Djebar et de Leïla Sebbar ». .
  • Grandguillaume, Gilbert: « La relation Père-Fils dans l’Amour la Fantasia d’Assia Djebbar (sic !) et Bandarshah Tayeb Salah ». In: Littératures maghrébines, colloque Jacqueline Arnaud, Paris XIII. Paris: L’Harmattan, 1990, Vol. 10, T. 1, pp 167–173 ; .
  • Hornung, Alfred, Ernstpeter Ruhe: Postcolonialisme et autobiographie. Albert Memmi, Assia Djebar, Daniel Maximum. Amsterdam – Atlanta: Studies in Comparative Literature 20, Series Editors C.C. Barfoot and Theo D’haen, 1998