About 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-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.
Known for:
Nowhere in my Father's House|La Femme sans sépulture|Q97104427|Q97104391|Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
Notable works:
Loin de Médine
Awards:
Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association|Neustadt International Prize for Literature|Grand prix de la francophonie|Prize of the Magazine Études françaises|Knight of the Legion of Honour|Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres|honorary doctor of the University of Vienna|honorary doctorate of Concordia University
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