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Assia Djebar
Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, known by her pen name Assia Djebar, 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-patria…
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culture · Algerian feminist novelist (1936–2015) · linguist · film director · professor · translator · writer · historian · also Assia Djebar, Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, Djebar
Born 30 June 1936 · Died 6 February 2015 · Q157313
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2026· 4 entries
aps.dz: Assia Djebar Grand Prize unveils 2026 longlist
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aps.dz: Premio "Grand Prix Assia-Djebar" de novela: presentada la lista larga de la edición 2026
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TSA: Grand Prix Assia Djebar : la liste des romans sélectionnés dans les 3 langues dévoilée
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2015· 8 entries
Concordia University: Assia Djebar remembered
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Le Monde.fr: Assia Djebar, legs d’une « femme d’écriture »
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The Guardian: Assia Djebar, Algerian novelist, dies aged 78
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Slate: Assia Djebar, gardienne de la langue française
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AI Alarabiya: Radio: Algerian novelist Assia Djebar dead at 78
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L'Humanité: Assia Djebar : la grande dame s’en est allée
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Died 2015-02-06.
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JeuneAfrique: Assia Djebar, la jeune fille et la mort
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2013· 1 entry
Fabula: Assia Djebar : le parcours d’une femme de lettres. Littérature, résistance et transmission
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2008· 1 entry
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2005· 2 entries
Career landmark: seat 5 of the Académie française (2005–2015).
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Djebar was elected to France's foremost literary institution, the Académie Française, an institution tasked with guarding the heritage of the French language and whose members, known as the "immortals", are chosen for l
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (2000).
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Won the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Grand prix de la francophonie (1999).
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Awarded Prize of the Magazine Études françaises (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
Won the International Prize of Palmi
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1997· 1 entry
Djebar became the director for the Center of French and Francophone Studies at Louisiana State University
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1996).
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Djebar won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature for her contribution to world literature
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1985· 2 entries
Djebar published L'Amour, la fantasia (translated as Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, Heinemann, 1993), in which she "repeatedly states her ambivalence about language, about her identification as a Western-educated, Alge
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Won the Franco-Arab Friendship Prize, for L'Amour la Fantasia
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1962· 1 entry
Djebar returned to Algeria and published Les Enfants du Nouveau Monde, and followed that in 1967 with Les Alouettes Naïves
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1958· 1 entry
And Ahmed Ould-Rouïs began a marriage that would eventually end in divorce
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1957· 1 entry
Chose the pen name Assia Djebar for the publication of her first novel, La Soif ("The Thirst")
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1955· 1 entry
Becoming the first Algerian and Muslim woman to be educated at France's most elite schools
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-06-30.
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