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Assia Djebar
(1936) is considered to be one of North Africa's greatest contemporary writers. Her novels include La Soif (1957), Les Enfants du Nouveau Monde (1962), and Les Alouettes Naïves(1967). Her most recent work is La disparition de la langue française (2003). She was elected to the Académie française in 2005.
Eurozine Articles
Scars on my memory
On Algeria's literary ancestors and the choice of language
"Thanks to the narrative art that my sisters learned to preserve over generations, I found my way back to an inner unity, so that the original note began stir at the centre of the French language in which I was writing. Thus reconciled to myself, I could swim completely freely." [more]
18.02.2008