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Works by, Works on
Assia Djebar

2003 La disparition de la langue française (novel) Albin Michel

2002 Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement (short stories, édition amplifiée) Albin Michel

2002 La femme sans sépulture (novel) Albin Michel

2000 Figlie di Ismaele nel Vento e nella Tempesta (Musica Drama) Giunti ed. Firenze

1999 Ces voix qui m'assiègent: En marge de ma francophonie Paris: Albin Michel and Montréal: Les presses de l'université de Montréal (essays)

 1997 Les nuits de Strasbourg Paris: Actes Sud (novel) 

 1997 Oran, langue morte Paris: Actes Sud (short stories) 

 1996 Le blanc de l'Algérie Paris: Albin Michel (narrative) 

 1994 Vaste est la prison Paris: Albin Michel (novel)

 1993 Chronique d'un été Algérien Paris: Plume (preface to photographic essay)

 1991 Loin de Médine Paris: Albin Michel (novel) 

 1987 Ombre sultane Paris: J.C. Lattès (novel) 

 1985 L'amour, la fantasia Paris: J.C. Lattès, 1985 (novel)

 1980 Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement Paris: des femmes (short stories) 

 1967 Les alouettes naïves Paris: Julliard (novel)

 1962 Les enfants du nouveau monde Paris: Julliard (novel)

 1958 Les impatients Paris: Julliard (novel)

 1957 La soif Paris: Julliard (novel)
 

Translations These books have been translated into German, English, Dutch, Spanish, Arabic, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Slovakian, Polish, and Portuguese, Greek, Norwegian, Chinese, and Romanian.

   In English:

Algerian White (Memories) New York: Seven Stories, May 2000

So Vast the Prison (Novel) New York: Seven Stories, 1999

Women of Algiers in their Apartment (short Stories) Charlottesville: Univ of Virginia Press, 1992 [1999]

Strasbourg  Nights (Novel) Chicago: Northwestern Univ. Press (forthcoming)

Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade London: Quartet, 1989 New York: Heinemann, 1992

Sister to Scheherazade London: Quartet, 1988 New York: Heinemann, 1993

Far from Medina London: Quartet, 1983

The Mischief New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958 (Pocketbook: Nadia, 1960)
 

Films, Plays & Poetry

 1982 "La zerda ou les chants de l'oubli" (feature length film: 57 min)

 1979 "La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua" (feature length film: 1hr. 57 min) 
 Arabic with English subtitles. Distributed in the US by Women Make Movies, NY.

2000 Figlie di Ismaele nel Vento e nella Tempesta (Musica Drama) Giunti ed. Firenze

 1969 "Rouge l'aube" Algiers: ENAL (play)

 1969 "Poèmes pour l'Algérie heureuse" Algiers: ENAL (poetry)
 

Books on Assia Djebar

2006 Ringrose, Priscilla, In Dialogue with Feminisms, Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi Publishing.

2005 Rocca, Anna Assia Djebar, Le corps invisible, voir sans être vue, Paris: L’Harmattan.

2005 Calle-Gruber, Mireille, Ed. Assia Djebar, Nomade entre les murs, pour une poétique transfrontalière, Paris : Maisonneuve & Larose et l’Académie Royale de Belgique.

2004. Restuccia, Laura, Parole Dal Silenzio: Assia Djebar, La Voce Dell'Algeria Fra Memoria E Storia, Palumbo.

2001 Calle-Gruber, Mireille Assia Djebar, ou la resistance de l’ecriture. Regards d’un ecrivain d’Algérie. Paris : Maisonneuve & Larose. 

1998 Soares, Vera Lucia Escritura dos silencios Assia Djebar Brasil: EDUFF

1997 Clerc, Jeanne-Marie Assia Djebar: Ecrire, Transgresser, Résister Paris:L'Harmattan

1997 Siebert, Renate Assia Djebar, andare ancora al cuora delle ferité Milan: La Tartaruga

1996 Assia Djebar et Sembène Ousmane: littérature et cinéma en Afrique francophone Ed. Sada Niang, Paris: L'Harmattan 

1996 World Literature Today Autumn, 1996 issue devoted to Assia Djebar

1990 Cheiki, Beïda Les romans d'Assia Djebar Algiers: SNED

1988 Mortimer, Mildred Assia Djebar Philadelphia: CELFAN

1980 Déjeux, Jean Assia Djebar. Romanciere algerienne, cineaste arabe Sherbrooke: Sherbrooke Univ. Press
 

Books partially about Assia Djebar 

2003 Harrison, Nicholas, Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory and the Work of Fiction, Cambridge: Polity Press.

1999 Orlando, Valerie Nomadic Voices of Exile. Ohio UP

1998 Erickson, John Islam and the Post Colonial Narrative. Cambridge UP Assia Djebar, Salman Rushdie, Khatibi, Jelloun… 

1998 Ruhe, Ernstpeter Postcolonialisme et Autobiographie  Rodopi  Albert Memmi, Assia Djebar … 

1997 Segarra, Marta Leur pesant de poudre: romancieres francophones du Maghreb Paris: L'Harmattan 

1997 Gauvin, Lise. L'écrivain francophone à la croisée des langues. Paris: Karthala.

1996 Green, et. Al. Postcolonial Subjects: Francophone Women Writers. Univ. of Minnesota Press

1995 Merini, Rafika, Two Major francophone women writers: Assia Djebar and Leila Sebbar. New York: Peter Lang.

1993 Woodhull, Winifred. Transfigurations of the Maghreb. Univ. of Minnesota Press

1993 Calle-Gruber, Mireille. Mises en scènes d'écrivains: Assia Djebar, Nicole Brossard, etc. Quebec and Grenoble: Le Griffon d'argile.

1993 Harrow, Kenneth.  The Muse and the Marabout, Ed. Heinemann.

1991 Brahimi, Denise. Appareillages. Paris: Ed. Tierce

1987 Spivak, Gayatri. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" in Other Worlds. Essays in Cultural Politics. Routledge
 

Films about Assia Djebar

2003 "Assia Djebar : Genèses, entretiens avec Mireille Calle-Gruber" (53 min) Pierre Samson - la Maison des écrivains et le département d’études féminines de l’université Paris-VIII, co-production - Paris

2003 Bernard Pivot’s "Double Jeu: Salvatore Adamo, Andrzej Seweryn, Assia Djebar", France 2

1997 "Assia Djebar: le miroir lointain" (35 min) ARTE - Cologne, Germany

1997 "Voix Ensevelies, Assia Djebar, Lieux d’écriture" (26 minutes) Barbara-Ann Rieck, WDR

1993 "Paris, lieu d'exil d'Assia Djebar" (30 min) Television Frankfurt, Germany

1992 "Assia Djebar entre ombre et soleil" (52 min) Belgian-Algerian co-production

1991 "Assia Djebar à Fès (30 min) Florida Sadki FR3, Paris

1986 "Assia Djebar, l'amour la fantasia" (20 min) FR3, Paris

 

Awards & Prizes for literature and film

 

* 2005 Elected to the French Academy, Académie Française de Paris (Paris)

* 2005 Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Osnabrück (Osnabrück)

* 2002 Named Silver Chair Professor at New York University (New York)

* 2001 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. France

* 2000 Doctor Honoris Causa University of Concordia, Montreal, Canada 

* 2000 International Peace Prize of German Book Trade Association (Frankfurt)

* 1999 Elected member of the Belgian Royal Academy of French Language and Literature (seat Julian Green)

* 1999 Medal of Francophony,  Académie Française de Paris (Médaille de Vermeil de la francophonie)

* 1999 Prize from the Review: Etudes Françaises, Montréal for Ces voix qui m'assiègent... 

* 1998 International Prize of Palmi (Italy) for all creative work

* 1997 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for Literature, Boston, MA, for Oran, langue morte 

* 1997 Fonlon-Nichols Prize African Literature Association, USA, for all creative work 

* 1996 International Literary Neustadt Prize, World Literature Today, Oklahoma, for all creative work 

* 1995 Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Vienna, Austria

* 1995 Maurice Maeterlinck International Prize, Société des gens de lettres, Brussels, for all creative work

* 1989 Liberatur Prize for best novel by a woman, Frankfurt Book Fair, for Ombre sultane

* 1985 Franco-Arabic Friendship Prize for L'amour la fantasia

* 1982 Special Prize for Best Historic Film, Berlin, for "La zerda et les chants de l'oubli"

* 1979 International Critics' Prize, Biennal of Venice, for "La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua"

* 1962 French Culture Prize for Les enfants du nouveau monde