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Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015

LC control no.n 84237386
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPQ3989.2.D57
Personal name headingDjebar, Assia, 1936-2015
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Variant(s)Djebar, Assia, 1936-
Djebbar, Assia, 1936-2015
Jabbār, Āsiyā, 1936-2015
See alsoReal identity: Imalhayene, Fatma-Zohra, 1936-2015
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Associated countryAlgeria France United States
Birth date1936-06-30
Death date2015-02-06
Place of birthCherchell (Algeria)
Place of deathParis (France)
Field of activityAlgerian fiction (French)
AffiliationAcadémie française
Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Center for French and Francophone Studies
New York University. Center for French Civilization and Culture
Profession or occupationNovelists Historians Literature teachers Motion picture producers and directors
Found inDéjeux, J. Assia Djebar, 1984: t.p. (Assia Djebar; romancière algérienne, cinéaste arabe)
LC data base 9-6-84 (hdg.: Djebar, Assia, 1936- )
Her Rouge l'aube, 1969: t.p. (Assia Djebbar) errata slip (Assia Djebar)
Biog. info. from LSU files, May 10, 2001 (Djebar, Assia, pseud. of Fatima-Zohra Imalayène, b. 1936, Algerian novelist, historian, and film-maker, b. in Cherchell)
LSU today, Dec. 8, 2000 (Assia Djebar, LSU Foundation Distinguished Professor of French Studies and creative director of the LSU Center for French and Francophone Studies; b. Fatima-Zohra Imalayene)
Le roman maghrébin francophone, 1998?: t.p. (Fatma-Zohra Imalhayene)
NLC database, May 23, 2001 (hdg.: Imalhayene, Fatma-Zohra, 1936- )
Iḥmirār al-fajr, 1969: t.p. (Āsiyā Jabbār)
New York Times, Assia Djebar, novelist who wrote about oppression of Arab women, dies at 78, Feb. 13, 2015 (b. June 30, 1936; d. Feb. 7 in Paris; first Algerian student and first Muslim woman accepted to the École Normale Supérieure, France; first writer from North Africa elected to the Académie Française; appointed director, Center for French and Francophone Studies, Louisiana State University, 1995; professor of French and francophone studies at New York University, since 2001; wrote in French, the language of colonizers but also of liberty, because it allowed her to educate herself)
Wikipedia, September 21, 2016 (Assia Djebar; Assia Djebar was the pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (30 June 1936-6 February 2015), an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker; most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance; 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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