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Assia Djebar, novelist, scholar, poet, and filmmaker, won Germany’s premier literary prize, Le Prix de la Paix, in 2000, the Neustadt Prize for Contributions to World Literature in 1996, the Yourcenar Prize in 1997. Djebar was educated in Algeria and France. Her works translated into English include So Vast the Prison (Seven Stories Press, 1999). Her first film, La Nouba des Femmes de Mont Chenoua, won the ’79 Venice Biennale International Critic Prize. In 2000, she directed her musical drama Filles de Ismael dans le vent et la tempête at the Teatro di Roma. Djebar is a professor of French and Francophone Literature at the New York University. She divides her time between Paris and New York.
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