Djanet Lachmet (born 1948) is an Algerian novelist and actress.

Djanet Lachmet
Born1948 (age 75–76)
Algeria
EducationBordj El Kiffan (drama)
Occupation(s)Actress, novelist

Life edit

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 edit

  • 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

References edit

  1. ^ Jean Déjeux (1994). "LACHMET, Djanet". La littérature féminine de langue française au Maghreb. KARTHALA Editions. p. 231. ISBN 978-2-86537-500-4.
  2. ^ Susan Ireland (1999). "Lachmet, Djanet (1948-)". In Eva Martin Sartori (ed.). The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature. Greenwood Press. p. 297. ISBN 978-0-313-29651-2.

Further reading edit

  • 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