Leïla Marouane

Leïla Marouane (born in 1960, in Djerba, Tunisia) is a French Algerian journalist and creative writer.  Leïla Marouane is a pseudonym, her full name is Leyla Zineb Mechentel. She is an author of novels and short fiction which has received a number of awards within the French-language literature community.

Biography

Leyla Z. Mechentel was born in 1960 in Djerba, Tunisia, to a family living there in exile. The family moved to Biskra, and they lived there until she was six, when they moved to Algier. She lived there until her exile from Algeria to Paris in 1991.[1]

She became a journalist after her college was interrupted in Algiers, working for Horizons and El Watan. She later wrote for Politis and Jeune Afrique, as well as the German-language press. In 1995, she attended Paris 8 University to finish her schooling. There she completed a creative writing degree, under the novelist Paul Fournel. Her debut novel, La fille de la Casbah (in English The Daughter of the Kasbah) , was published by Éditions Julliard in 1996. Since, she has published a number of novels. Her first novel translated or published in English was her 1998 Ravisseur, translated into English as "The Abductor".[2]

She is also the founder of La Boutique (est. 1996), a creative writing focused organization which promotes French-language writing.

Literary works
  • 1996 : La Fille de la casbah (novel, published by Julliard)
  • 1998 : Ravisseur ( in English, The Abductor [2] novel, published by Julliard)
  • 2001 : Le Châtiment des hypocrites (novel, published by Le Seuil)
  • 2003 : L'Algérie des deux rives  (Short story collection Fayard)
  • 2004 : Les Criquelins ; suivi de Le sourire de la Joconde (novella, published by Fayard)
  • 2005 : La Jeune Fille et la Mère (novel, published by Le Seuil)
  • 2007 : La Vie sexuelle d'un islamiste à Paris (in English, The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris,[1] novel, published by Albin Michel)
  • 2009 : Le Papier, l'encre et la braise (Sociological monograph)
  • 2009 : Nouvelles d'Algérie (short story collection, published by Magellan in octobre 2009)
  • 2012 : ALGERIES 50 (short collection by Éditions Magellan, 2012)

Prizes
  • Jean-Claude Izzo Prize, 2006
  • Prix des écrivains de langue française, 2006
  • Prix Gironde, 2001
  • Prix de la Société des gens de lettres, 2001
  • Prix du roman français à New York, 2002
  • Liberaturpreis, 2004
  • Creator of Peace (Unesco), 2000
  • Narrativa Donna, 2004
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References
  1. "Algerian Author Leila Marouane On Religion, Politics and Writing". Africa Book Club. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
  2. ""The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris" by Leïla Marouane". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2016-01-18.

Works cited
  • Zohra Bouchentouf-Siagh, Dzayer, Alger : ville portée, rêvée, imaginée, Casbah, 2006, p. 84–86 (ISBN 9961645766)
  • Achour Cheurfi, Écrivains algériens : dictionnaire biographique, Casbah éditions, 2004, p. 249 (ISBN 9789961643983)
  • Pierre Grenaud, Algérie brillante d'hier, amère Algérie d'aujourd'hui, L'Harmattan, 2000, p. 60 (ISBN 9782747501088)

See also
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