Assia djebar biography sample

Assia Djebar

Assia Djebar, pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayene, born on June 30, 1936 in Ouled Hamou (department of Algiers) near Ain Bessem in the current wilaya of Bouira (Algeria) and died on February 6, 2015 in Paris, is a French-speaking Algerian writer.

Author of numerous novels, short stories, poems and essays, she also wrote for the theater and directed several films.

Assia Djebar is considered one of the most famous and influential authors in the Maghreb.

Assia djebar biography sample

She was elected to the Académie Française in 2005, becoming the first North African author to be received there.

Assia Djebar was born into a family of the traditional Algerian petty bourgeoisie. Her father, Tahar Imalhayène, from Gouraya, was a teacher who graduated from the Teacher Education Institution of Bouzaréa (Ecole Normal D’instituteurs).

Her mother, Bahia Sahraoui, was member of the Berkani family (from the Chenoui Ait Menasser Berber populations of Dahra), whose ancestors fought alongside The Emir Abd El-Kad