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Algerian Women Writers




Who are the women writers of Algeria? What have they published, who has published them and when?

check out https://algerianwomeninliterature.blogspot.com/
 

*the below list is under construction*





KAOUTHER ADIMI












 
  ASSIA ALI 3ISSA
























 ZAKIA ALLAL
 TAOS AMROUCHE




























LEILA ASLAOUI-HEMMADI


Dalimen, 2015



























HAJAR BALI 
MAISSA BEY
























AMEL BOUCHAREB






Amal Bouchareb
Sakarat Nedjma  سَكرات نجمة 


Review-express in English





























NASSIMA BOULOUFA 





Nabadhate akher al-leil
[Heartbeats in the dead of the night]



Description-express in English here


















NINA BOURAOUI 




 


















Le jour du seisme







CORINNE CHEVALLIER



La petite fille du Tassili
Casbah
















NADJET DAHMOUN
























RABIA DJALTI

 






Nostalgia (made) of mint
حنين بالناعناع




















ASSIA DJEBAR




Algerian White



















FAKIRA-WASSILA DOUAR


Old Proverbs


Review in English here





FADELA FAROUK




 




FATIMA GALLAIRE









 ANNA GREKI


















SARAH HAIDAR





Virgules en trombe
Apic

















LEILA HAMOUTENE

 




Le chale de Zeineb
Casbah





ZEHIRA HOUFANI



Les Pirates du Desert

Review in English


Discussion with the author in English




LINDA KAMAL


(Distorted body)
الجثة المشوهة


  



 RAHIMA KARIM









SAFIA KETOU









La planete Mauve et autres nouvelles





















BAHIA KIARED













ZEINEB LAOUEDJ
(poet)



Nouara the mad one
نوارة لهبيلة




















AISHA LEMSINE







LEILA MAROUANE





















YASMINA MECHAKRA























ANISSA MOHAMMEDI


Au nom de ma parole
(In the name of my word)














MALIKA MOKEDDEM



























AHLEM MOSTEGHANEMI #BESTSELLER









Dust of Promises (English version)
Bloomsbury, 2016

Part 3 of Ahlem Mosteghanemi's trilogy
















Chaos of the senses (English version)
Bloomsbury, 2016

Part 2 of Ahlem Mosteghanemi's trilogy
















The Bridges of Constantine (English version)
Bloomsbury, 2014

Part 1 of Ahlem Mosteghanemi's trilogy


















Nissyan (dot) com
Dar El Adab, 2011 (Arabic Version)


Translated into English as The Art of Forgetting (Bloomsbury)

















FADELA MRABET 







La Piscine
Dalimen, 2015
SAMIRA NEGROUCHE
















LEILA SEBBAR




























 NADIA SEBKHI





















DJOHAR WALLIS




L'emprunt
El Maarifa



















FATMA ZOHRA ZAMOUM
















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