30 Reads: A Month of Algerian Literature by Women
On why Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth) is a time of joy and sorrow: By Nadia Ghanem Women in Translation Month is always a time of great excitement for me, but as a reader addicted to Algerian fiction it is also a time for sorrow. Few novels written by Algerian women have been translated (to English or to any other languages), and if I stuck to the list of works that have appeared in English ...
6 Algerian Women Writers Whose Work Should Be Translated into English
LitHub has kicked off its series of "books by women we'd love to see translated into English" with a German list of ten from Katy Derbyshire. An Arabic list is coming soon, but unfortunately has nothing from Algeria. Nadia Ghanem, who writes about Algerian literature for ArabLit and HuffPost Maghreb, compiled a list of six: By Nadia Ghanem Amal Bouchareb (أمل بوشارب) Amal Bouchareb was born in 1984 in Damascus. She released one short story collection Thirteen on Her ...
Writers Select: New & Inventive Algerian Voices
Curated by Leonie Rau and Nadia Ghanem As part of our special "In Focus: Algeria" section, we asked a number of Algerian writers, translators, and scholars to put together a list of their highlights from Algerian literature. If you were to choose 4-7 titles that would represent, to you, the most interesting books (perhaps experimental, challenging, or influential in some way) written by Algerian writers in the last 10 years, what would they be? And ...
Six Algerian Novelists Whose Work Is Shaping Algerian Literature
By Zakia Allal Samia Ben Driss Ben Driss's 'Maryam's Tree' Samia Ben Driss is an Algerian writer who was born in 1971 in Ferdjioua in Mila Province. She received her doctorate from the University of Constantine and is currently a professor at the University Center Abdelhafid Boussouf. She has published three novels: رائحة الذئب / The Smell of the Wolf in 2015, شجرة مريم / Maryam’s Tree in 2016 and بيت الخريف / The House ...
The Story of 50 Years of Algerian Crime Fiction in 60+ Books
What does crime fiction look like when set in a society where the justice system is broken? By Nadia Ghanem Crime, together with actions defined as criminal, are very much at the forefront of debates in Algeria at the moment. Over the course of the peaceful nationwide protests that began in February, a worrying number of women and men who have marched bearing the Amazigh flag on Fridays have been arrested. These arrests, reported to have ...
Why Algerian Author Zehira Houfani Quit Writing Detective Novels
This interview was originally conducted by our Algeria Editor Nadia Ghanem in French and translated into English. In it, Ghanem and novelist Zehira Houfani discuss what led the author to and away from the detective genre: By Nadia Ghanem Zehira Houfani is an Algerian writer who started publishing in the 1980s. She published two detective novels, among which is Les pirates du desert (Pirates of the Desert, 1986), set in Tamanrasset, an oasis city in southern Algeria. Few women have written ...
A Look at 100 Books: Algerian Literature in English Translation
Which Algerian books have been translated to English, which haven't, and which should be? By Nadia Ghanem *This list was updated in September 2021. Since 2018, when this article first appeared on ArabLit, Kaouther Adimi’s Our Riches, translated by Chris Andrews, was released by New Directions in 2020, and Tara Press are currently working on the translation of Rabia Djelti’s prose novel The Prophetess. Djamila Morani’s part historical, part crime fiction novel The Djinn’s Apple ...
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Six Algerian Novelists Whose Work Is Shaping Algerian Literature
Algerian writer Zakia Allal has put together a list of six Algerian novelists whose works have impacted the country's literature ...
Writers Select: New & Inventive Algerian Voices
We asked a number of Iraqi writers, translators, and scholars to put together a list of their highlights from Iraqi literature. ...
Ahlam Mosteghanemi: A Writer’s Journey of Love for and Devotion to Arabic Literature
"Arabic was my father’s choice, not mine; he wanted me to avenge him, as he was deprived of learning it by the French colonizer, who declared war on the Arabic language as a way of stripping Algerians of their identity." ...
From ALQ: Football Chants and a Football-issue Playlist
"This chant reflects the intersections of football, politics, socioeconomics, migration, and the feelings of hogra. For those who want to escape the ills of the homeland, the wooden boat is often a symbol of their freedom." ...
