Assia Djebar

Assia Djebar was the pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker who died in 2015. She wrote mostly about the obstacles women face, and her novels include A Sister to Scheherazade, the story of two co-wives who seek a way out of tradition, and Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade, a historical work. In 2005 she became the first writer from the Maghreb elected to the Académie Française, and in 1996 she received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.