Djanet Lachmet Explained
| Djanet Lachmet |
| Birth Place: | Algeria |
| Occupation: | Actress, novelist |
| Education: | Bordj El Kiffan (drama) |
Djanet Lachmet (born 1948) is an Algerian novelist and actress.
Life
Djanet Lachmet was born in a small town in Algeria. Forced into marriage at sixteen, she divorced three months later. Wanting to be a comedian, she studied drama for four years at Bordj El Kiffan.[1] From 1968 to 1972 she lived in Canada, and later moved to Paris to work as an actress.[2]
Works
- Le Cow-Boy. Paris: Belfond, 1983. Translated into English by Judith Still as Lallia, 1987.
- 'Une Composante de l'underground français', Actualités de l'émigration 80, 11 March 1986
Further reading
- Ammar-Khodja, Soumya. 'Djanet Lachmet. Le cow boy & Hafsa Zinaï-Koudil. La fin d'un rêve'. In Christiane Achour (ed.) Diwan d'inquiétude et d'espoir. La littérature féminine algérienne de langue française, ENAG/Éditions, 1991, pp. 390–411
- Still, Judith 'Body and Culture: The representation of sexual, racial and class differences in Lachmet's Le Cow-boy.' In Margaret Atack & Phil Powrie (eds.) Contemporary French Fiction by Women: Feminist Perspectives, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990,pp. 71–83
- Still, Judith. 'Djanet Lachmet's Le Cow-Boy: Constructing self - Arab and female', Paragraph 8 (October 1986), pp. 55–61
Notes and References
- Book: Jean Déjeux. La littérature féminine de langue française au Maghreb. registration. 1994. KARTHALA Editions. 978-2-86537-500-4. 231. LACHMET, Djanet.
- Book: Susan Ireland. Eva Martin Sartori. The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature. 1999. Greenwood Press. 978-0-313-29651-2. 297. Lachmet, Djanet (1948-).
