Awards & Winners

Assia Djebar

Date of Birth 30-June-1936
Place of Birth Cherchell
(Algeria)
Nationality Algeria
Also know as Fatima-Zohra Imalayen
Profession Writer, Novelist, Essayist, Translator, Teacher
Assia Djebar is the pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. She is "frequently associated with women's writing movements, her novels are clearly focused on the creation of a genealogy of Algerian women, and her political stance is virulently anti-patriarchal as much as it is anti-colonial." 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.

Awards by Assia Djebar

Check all the awards nominated and won by Assia Djebar.

1996


Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Neustadt International Prize for Literature