Fatima Gallaire

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Fatima Gallaire (1944- ) is a Franco-Algerian playwright and short stories author, who writes in French.

She was born in 1944 in Algeria, and holds a degree in French literature from Algiers University, and one of cinema from Nanterre 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 Price in 1990 and the Amic Price of the Académie Française in 1994.

[edit] 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.