Assia Djebar

Assia Djebar (Arabic: آسيا جبار) is the pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015) was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker.

Assia Djebar
Assia Djebar in 1992
Born	Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (1936-06-30)30 June 1936 Cherchell, Algeria
Died	6 February 2015(2015-02-06) (aged 78) Paris, France
Occupation	novelist, essayist, professor
Nationality	Algeria
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure
Subject	Feminism
Notable works	La Soif, Les Impatients, Les Enfants du Nouveau Monde, Les Alouettes Naïves
Notable awards	Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Yourcenar Prize
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She was known for writing books about feminism. 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.

Djebar died in Paris, aged 78.^[1]