Djamila Debèche

Djamila Debèche was born on 30 June 1926 in the Sétif region. Orphaned at two and raised by her grandparents, she studied in Algiers. From 1942 she hosted programmes on Radio Algiers devoted to the advancement of women and the education of girls, and in 1947 founded L'Action, a social, feminine, literary and artistic review, which ran to only ten issues. Her second novel, Aziza, published in 1955, received a prize from the Académie française. Later settled in Paris, where she published reportage, she died there in 2010.

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• NovelLeïla, jeune fille d'AlgérieDjamila Debèche · 1947not translated into EnglishLiterature