Assia Djebar

Assia Djebar is the pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen. Assia Djebar was born on the 4 th August 1936. She is an Algerian novelist, filmma...

Assia Djebar is the pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen. Assia Djebar was born on the 4th August 1936. She is an Algerian novelist, filmmaker and a translator. Most of the works she did tackled the issues that are faced by the women of the society. Assia Djebar is noted for the feminist stance she holds.
source of picture: www.worldliteraturetoday.org

Assia Djebar is seen go be one of the North Africa’s pre-eminent and most influential writers. On the 16th June 2005, she was elected to the Académie française, and she became the first writer from Maghreb to gain recognition like that. Fall the body of her work; she was given the award of the year 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Early Life and Career
Assia Djebar was born on the 4th August 1936 as Fatima-Zohra Imalayen to the family of Tahar Imalhayene, a Berber speaking family. She was brought up in Cherchell, a small seaport village that is beside Algiers in the region of Ain Defla. Her father was an educator, who was teaching the French language at the Mouzaïaville dans la Mitidja, and that was the primary school she attended. Assia Djebar later attended a Quranic private boarding school in Blida, and it was there that she was one of the two girls in the school. She studied at the College de Blida, which is a high school in Algiers, and she was the only Muslim in her class.
In the year 1957, Assia Djebar published her first novel called La Soif, with the fear of getting an approval from her father she published the book with the pen name, Assia Djebar. The next book she published was named Les Impatient, which she published in the next year. In the year 1958, she started a marriage with Ahmed Ould and the marriage ended in divorce.
Awards
In the year 1996, Assia Djebar won the prestigious Neusadt International Prize for Literature for the contribution she made to the world of literature. The next year, she won the Yourcenar Prize. In the year 2000, she was the winner of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

Works

Ø  La Soif, 1957 (English: The Mischief)
Ø  Les impatients, 1958
Ø  Les Enfants du Nouveau Monde, 1962 (English: Children of the New World)
Ø  Les Alouettes naïves, 1967
Ø  Poème pour une algérie heureuse, 1969
Ø  Rouge l'aube
Ø  L'Amour, la fantasia, 1985 (English: Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade)
Ø  Ombre sultane 1987 (English: A Sister to Scheherazade)
Ø  Loin de Médine, (English: Far from Medina)
Ø  Vaste est la prison, 1995 (English: So Vast the Prison)
Ø  Le blanc de l'Algérie, 1996 (English: Algerian White)
Ø  Oran, langue morte, 1997 (English: The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry: Algerian Stories)
Ø  Les Nuits de Strasbourg, 1997
Ø  Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement (English: Women of Algiers in Their Apartment)
Ø  La femme sans sépulture, 2002
Ø  La disparition de la langue française, 2003
Ø  Nulle part dans la maison de mon père, 2008

Cinema

Ø  La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua, 1977

Ø  La Zerda ou les chants de l'oubli, 1979

Related

celebs 8751225108901951567

Post a Comment Default Comments

emo-but-icon
:noprob:
:smile:
:shy:
:trope:
:sneered:
:happy:
:escort:
:rapt:
:love:
:heart:
:angry:
:hate:
:sad:
:sigh:
:disappointed:
:cry:
:fear:
:surprise:
:unbelieve:
:shit:
:like:
:dislike:
:clap:
:cuff:
:fist:
:ok:
:file:
:link:
:place:
:contact:

Follow Us

Hot in weekRecentComments

Hot in week

Recent

Adonias Aguiar Filho

Adonias Aguiar Filho was born on the 27th November 1915; he died on the 2nd August 1990. He was a Brazilian writer and a novelist. He was a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras. source of...

Afonso Henrique da Costa Guimarães

Afonso Henrique da Costa Guimarães known with the name Alphonsus de Guimaraens was born on the 24th July 1870 in the city of Ouro Preto; he died on the 15th July 1921. He was a Brazilian poet. s...

Ana Cristina César

Ana Cristina César was born on the 2nd June 1952; she died on the 29th October 1983. She was a Brazilian poet and a translator from the city if Rio de Janeiro. She came from the middle-class protest...

André de Leones

André de Leones was born in the year 1980 in the city of Goiânia; he is a Brazilian novelist. He was born in Goiânia and he grew up in Silvânia, in the inner state of Goiás. He often adds the name o...

Antônio Augusto de Lima

Antônio Augusto de Lima was born on the 5th April 1859; he died on the 22nd April 1934. He was a Brazilian journalist, poet, musician, magistrate, a jurist, a professor and a politician. source ...

Comments

abdul:

https://bambusaarundinacea.blogspot.com/2013/08/bambusa-arundinacea-vamsah-venuh-thorny.html?showComment=1649834572774#c2561350977086625707

Shad Music Academy:

Thanks for sharing this valuable information with us. For more info visit: Shad Music Academy

Shad Music Academy:

Thanks for sharing this valuable information with us. For more info visit: Shad Music Academy

cd'holikas:

Ši informacija man labai naudinga ir svarbi ...Pirkti Rock CD InternetuKur Nopirkt Mūzikas CD

Text Widget

In the business of today\s music industry, referencing the past and understanding the present is necessary to ensure continued success of the industry. This is the main reason why Worldhitz Entertainment decides to develop a compilation of music events as it relates to what has happened, what is happening and what will happen.

Worldhitz Entertainment functions under the corporate goal of “developing the encyclopedia of music information,” with a supporting vision of becoming the world’s mod reliable website for music information.

Your visit is definitely important to us. Feel free to contact us with any feedback

Webutation

worldhitz.com Webutation

Total Pageviews

577518
item