Latifa Ben Mansour

Latifa Ben Mansour (Arabic: لطيفة بن منصور‎) (born 1950 in Tlemcen) is an Algerian writer and linguist.[1]

Biography

Having studied Linguistics at the École Normale Supérieure d'Alger, where she obtained her Ph.D. in the subject, Ben Mansour went on to teach it at the University of Paris III and communications at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.[2]

She received the Prix méditerranéen de la nouvelle in 1996 for her short story "Le Cocu Cadi". Her novel, La Prière de la peur, 1997 (ed. La Différence) has been awarded the Prix Beur FM Méditerranée.

References

  1. ^ Women in French studies, MLA annual meeting, Occidental College, 2008, p. 95 ff
  2. ^ Christiane Chaulet-Achour, Noûn:algériennes dans l'écriture, Atlantica, 1998, p. 163

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