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Assia Djebar
Assia Djebar (1936–2015) was an Algerian novelist, historian and film-maker, the pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayène. Writing in French, she explored the lives of Algerian women and the memory of colonial conquest and war in novels such as Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade. In 2005 she became the first writer from the Maghreb elected to the Académie française.
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