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Assia Djebar
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Professor of French
Doctorate in French Literature and Civilization, Ancienne élève de l´Ecole Normale Supérieure

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Research Interests:

French and Francophone; Women writing; Comparative Francophone Literatures of Post-colonial Africa; Beckett, Sarraute, Pinget, Michaux, etc.

Fellowships/Honors:

2000 Peace Prize, German Association of Book Traders; Elected to the Belgian Royal Academy of French Language and Literature; Awarded Médaille Vermeil de la francophonie by the Académie Française, 1999; Prize from journal Etudes françaises, Prize from journal Etudes françaises, Montréal, 1999; International Prize of Palmi, Italy for Creative Work, 1997; Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for Literature, Fonlon-Nichols Prize of African Literature Association, USA 1997; International Literary Neustadt Prize, World Literature Today, US 1996; Doctor honoris causa, University of Vienna and Concordia ( Montreal), 1995; Maurice Maeterlinck International Priwe, Société des gens de letters, Brussels, 1994.

Selected Works:

La disparition de la langue française-roman (Albin Michel, 2003).

La femme sans sépulture (Albin Michel, 2002).

Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement, Nouvelle edition complétée (Albin Michel, 2002).

Filles d´Ismaël dans le vent et la tempête, Florence: Ed. Giunti (2000).

Ces voix qui m´assiègent: En marge de ma francophonie, Paris: Albin Michel and Montréal: Les presses de l´Université de Montréal (1999).

Les Nuits de Strasbourg, Paris: Actes Sud (1997).

Oran, langue morte, Paris: Actes Sud (1997).

Le blanc de l´Algérie, Paris: Albin Michel (1996).

Vaste est la prison, Paris: Albin Michel (1994).

Loin de Médine, Paris: Albin Michel (1991).

Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade, London: Quartet (1989) and New York: Heineman (1992).

Ombre sultane, Paris: J.C Lattès (1987).

L´amour, la fantasia, Paris: J.C Lattès (1985).

Films:

1982 « "La Zerda ou les chants de l’oubli" » Film

1979 « "La nouba des femmes du Mont-Chenoua" » Film-International Critique Prize(Biennale of Venice)

Arabic with English subtitles. Distributed in US by Women Make Movies, NY

Theater:

Filles d’Ismaël dans le vent et la tempête

Teatro di Roma, Rome, Italy

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