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Assia Djebar

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born

June 30, 1936 in Cherchell (Algiers), Algeria

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http://assiadjebar.net

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Literature & Fiction

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Assia Djebar was born Fatma Zohra in Algeria to parents from the Berkani tribe of Dahra. She adopted the pen name Assia Djebar when her first novel, La Soif (Hunger) was published in 1957, in France where she was studying at the Sorbonne.

In 1958, she travelled to Tunis, where she worked as a reporter alongside Frantz Fanon, travelling to Algerian refugee camps on the Tunisian border with the Red Cross and Crescent. In 1962, she returned to Algeria to report on the first days of the country's independence.

She settled in Algeria in 1974, and began teaching at the University of Algiers. In 1978, she made a feature film with an Algerian TV company, The Nouba of the Women on Mont Chenoua, which won the critics' prize at Venice. Her second featu...more

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Average rating: 3.66 · 705 ratings · 93 reviews · 21 distinct works

	Fantasia by Assia Djebar, Dorothy S. Blair (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia Djebar, Marjolijn (Translator) de Jager, Marjoli De Jager (Translator) 3.54 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1980 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Children of the New World by Assia Djebar, Clarisse Zimra (Afterword), Marjolijn De Jager (Translation) 3.70 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Sister to Scheherazade by Assia Djebar (Translator), Dorothy S. Blair (Translator) 3.44 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions	My rating:
	So Vast the Prison by Assia Djebar, Betsy Wing (Translator) 3.40 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Algerian White: A Narrative by Assia Djebar, David Kelley (Translation), Marjolijn De Jager (Translation) 3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Femme Sans Sepulture 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry: Algerian Stories by Assia Djebar, Tegan Raleigh (Translation) 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Loin de Medine 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1 — 6 editions	My rating:
	La Disparition de La Langue Francaise 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:

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