Assia Djebar was born in Algeria. She was the first Algerian woman to attend the Ecole normale supérieure in Sèvres and the first to become a professor of history in North Africa. ‘A Sentence of Love’ (Granta 59) is taken from the collection of short stories Oran, Langue morte (Actes Sud).
‘I met Annie for the first time in 1995, in Algiers. A friend of my sister's, she came from Paris and stayed with me for one night.’
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