Assia Djebar
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).
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A Sentence of Love
Assia Djebar
‘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.’