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Assia Djebar

1936 - 2015

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Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (Arabic: فاطمة الزهراء إيمالاين‎; 30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015), known by her pen name Assia Djebar (Arabic: آسيا جبار), was 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Assia Djebar is the 1,149th most popular writer (down from 989th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 31st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Algerian Writer.

Assia Djebar is most famous for her novels and essays that have been translated into many languages. She was born in Algeria, but she has lived in France since the late 1960s. Her novels are about the struggle for Algerian independence and the lives of Algerian women.

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Among writers, Assia Djebar ranks 1,149 out of 7,302. Before her are Alain-Fournier, Rosalía de Castro, John Dickson Carr, Andrei Bely, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and Chiara Lubich. After her are Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Frans Sammut, Jean-François Marmontel, Jean Webster, Charles Simic, and Antarah ibn Shaddad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Assia Djebar ranks 74. Before her are Samuel C. C. Ting, Petar Mladenov, Richard Wilson, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, Dražan Jerković, and Raymond Poulidor. After her are Engelbert Humperdinck, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Moussa Traoré, Bruce Dern, Yury Luzhkov, and Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa. Among people deceased in 2015, Assia Djebar ranks 64. Before her are Udo Lattek, Oliver Sacks, Zhelyu Zhelev, Kenzo Ohashi, Alfred G. Gilman, and Chandra Bahadur Dangi. After her are Maureen O'Hara, Francesco Rosi, Marshall Rosenberg, Pierre Brice, Dave Mackay, and Halldór Ásgrímsson.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Assia Djebar ranks 37 out of 213. Before her are Marcus Cornelius Fronto (100), Chadli Bendjedid (1929), Marlène Jobert (1940), Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948), Mohamed Boudiaf (1919), and Sidi Boushaki (1394). After her are Marcus Minucius Felix (110), Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (1856), Priscian (500), Micipsa (-200), Jean-Claude Brialy (1933), and Khaled (1960).

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Among WRITERS In Algeria

Among writers born in Algeria, Assia Djebar ranks 5. Before her are Albert Camus (1913), Apuleius (125), Hélène Cixous (1937), and Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948). After her are Marcus Minucius Felix (110), Robert Merle (1908), Boualem Sansal (1949), Kateb Yacine (1929), Al-Busiri (1213), Isaac Alfasi (1013), and Mohammed Dib (1920).

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