| LC control no. | n 78088850 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PQ2679.E244 |
| Personal name heading | Sebbar, Leïla |
| Variant(s) | סבאר, לילה |
| Associated country | Algeria |
| Located | France |
| Birth date | 1941-11-09 |
| Place of birth | Aflou (Algeria) |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Critics |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Her On tue les petites ... c1978: t.p. (Leïla Sebbar) cover (prof.) Le chinois vert d'Afrique, c1984: t.p. (Leïla Sebbar) p. 4 of cover (b. in Algeria, French mother, Algerian father) C'était leur France, c2007: t.p. (Leïla Sebbar) p. 319 (b. Nov., 1941 in Aflou, Algeria; has lived in France since 1961) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 23, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Sebbar, Leila; cultural critic, fiction writer; born 09 November 1941 in Aflou, Algeria; wrote the well-known and much celebrated trilogy: “Shérazade: 17 ans, brune, frisée et les yeux verts” (1984; English translation, Sherazade, Missing: Aged 17, dark curly hair, green eyes, 2000), Les carnets de Shérazade (Sherazade's Notebooks, 1985), and Le fou de Shérazade (Sherazade's Crazy Man, 1991); a novel “Parle mon fils, parle à ta mere” (Talk Son, Talk to Your Mother, 1984), articulates the frustration of two generations who do not share a common language; an important contributor to the journal “Immigration and the Third World: Without Borders” (1979-1981); started a correspondence with Nancy Huston, “Lettres parisiennes, autopsie de l'exil avec Nancy Huston” (Parisian Letters, Autopsy of Exile with Nancy Huston, 1993); edited three major collections of stories on childhood, colonialism, and the postcolonial period: “Une enfance d'ailleurs avec Nancy Huston” (A Childhood from Elsewhere, with Nancy Huston, 1993), “Une enfance algérienne” (An Algerian Childhood, 1997), and “Une enfance outremer” (An Overseas Childhood, 2001)) |
| Associated language | fre |
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