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.
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Awards & Honors
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
