Fatima Gallaire
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Fatima Gallaire is a Franco-Algeria
n playwright and short stories author, who writes in French
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She was born in 1944 in Algeria, and holds a degree in French literature from Algiers University, and one of cinema from Vincennes University.
She has written over twenty plays that have been translated and played in many languages (English, Italian, German, Spanish, Uzbek...), among which Princesses, translated as You have come back, and Les Co-épouses, translated as House of Wives.
She was awarded the Arletty Award in 1990 and the Amic Award of the Académie Française
in 1994.
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
n playwright and short stories author, who writes in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
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She was born in 1944 in Algeria, and holds a degree in French literature from Algiers University, and one of cinema from Vincennes University.
She has written over twenty plays that have been translated and played in many languages (English, Italian, German, Spanish, Uzbek...), among which Princesses, translated as You have come back, and Les Co-épouses, translated as House of Wives.
She was awarded the Arletty Award in 1990 and the Amic Award of the Académie Française
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
in 1994.
Works translated into English
- You have come back (Princesses), in "Plays by women: an International Anthology", ed. Francoise Kourilsky et Catherine Temerson, Ubu Repertory Theater Publications, 1988.
- Madame Bertin's Testimony (Témoignage contre un homme stérile), in "Monologues : plays from Martinique, France, Algeria, Quebec", Ubu Repertory Theater, New York, 1995.
- House of Wives (Les Co-épouses), in "Four Plays from North Africa", ed. Marvin Carlson, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications, New York, 2008.