Djanet Lachmet

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

Life

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
  • 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
  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
  • 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


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