Assia Djebar (1936–2015)
Auteur van Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
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Assia Djebar was born Fatima-Zohra Imalayan in Cherchell, Algeria on June 30, 1936. She read history at the Sorbonne in Paris, and, after teaching at Tunis and Rabat universities, emigrated to France with her husband and children. Her first novel, La Soif (The Mischief), was published in 1957. She toon meer wrote more than 15 novels during her lifetime including Algerian White, So Vast the Prison, The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry, and The Children of the New World. She was also a playwright and filmmaker. In 2005, she became the fifth woman to be elected to the Académie Française. She received numerous awards for her work including the International Prize of Palmi, the Peace Prize of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the International Critics' Prize at the Venice Biennale for the film La Nouba des Femmes du Mont Chenoua, and the International Literary Neustadt Prize. She died on February 7, 2015 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Imalayen, Fatima-Zohra
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- آسيا جبار
- Geboortedatum
- 1936-06-30
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2015-02-06
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Algeria
France - Geboorteplaats
- Cherchell, Algeria
- Plaats van overlijden
- Paris, France
- Woonplaatsen
- Cherchell, Algeria
Mouzaïaville, Algeria
Blida, Algeria
Paris, France
Rabat, Morocco
New York, USA (toon alle 7)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA - Opleiding
- École Normale Supérieure (Sèvres)
The Sorbonne
Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III - Beroepen
- university professor
novelist
filmmaker
playwright
poet
university professor (toon alle 7)
translator - Relaties
- Alloula, Malek (spouse)
- Organisaties
- New York University
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1996)
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (2000)
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Académie française (2005) - Korte biografie
- Assia Djebar was the pen name of Fatma-Zohra Imalhayène, born to a Berber family in Cherchell, Algeria. She was educated in Algeria and then at the elite École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in France. She earned a B.A. at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1956 and a Ph.D. at Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III in 1999. Her first novel, La Soif (The Mischief), was published in 1957, followed by Les Impatients (The Impatient Ones, 1958). She taught history at the University of Rabat and the University of Algiers, and also was a filmmaker, poet, and playwright. She was married and divorced twice, including to Walid Garn, with whom she collaborated on the 1969 play Rouge L’Aube (Red Dawn). Other works included Les Enfants du nouveau monde (Children of the New World, 1962), Les Alouettes naïves (The Naive Larks, 1967), Poèmes pour l’Algérie heureuse (Poems for a Happy Algeria, 1969), Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement (Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, 1980), L’Amour, la fantasia (Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, 1985), Ombre sultane (A Sister to Scheherazade, 1987), and Vaste est la prison (So Vast the Prison, 1994), as well as the semi-autobiographical Le Blanc de l’Algérie (Algerian White, 1995). She moved to the USA in 1995 and taught French literature at Louisiana State University and at New York University. In 2005, she was elected to the Académie française, the fifth woman and the first writer from North Africa to be elected.
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