Lucienne Favre (4 January 1894 – 21 March 1958) was a 20th-century French writer and playwright. She was an
algerianist
Algerian nationalism is pride in the Algerian identity and culture. It has been historically infuenced by the conflicts between the conflicts between the Deylik of Algiers and European countries, the French conquest of Algeria and the subseque ...
. She was among the first to doubt the authenticity of the Muslim persona of the Jewish-Algerian writer
Elissa Rhaïs
Elissa Rhaïs, Hebrew language, Hebrew: אליסה ראיס, born Rosine Boumendil (12 December 1876 – 18 August 1940) was a History of the Jews in Algeria, Jewish-Algerian writer, who adopted the persona of a Muslim woman who had escaped from ...
.
Publications
;Novels
*1925: ''Dimitri et la Mort'', Ferenczi et fils
*1926: ''Bab-el-Oued'', Crès et Cie
*1927: ''L'Homme derrière le mur'', preface by
Pierre Mac Orlan
Pierre Mac Orlan, sometimes written MacOrlan (born Pierre Dumarchey, February 26, 1882 – June 27, 1970), was a French novelist and songwriter.
His novel '' Quai des Brumes'' was the source for Marcel Carné's 1938 film of the same name, starring ...
, Crès et Cie
*1929: ''La Noce'', ed.
Bernard Grasset
*1930: ''Orientale 1930'', Bernard Grasset, « Les Écrits », 1930 ; Grand Prix littéraire d'Algérie
*1933: ''Tout l'inconnu de la Casbah d'Alger'', illustrations by Charles Brouty, Alger, Baconnier
*1936: « Un dimanche dans la Casbah », ''Les Œuvres littéraires'' issue 184, October 1936
*1941: ''Mille et un jours, les aventures de la belle Doudjda'', Gallimard
*1937: ''Dans la Casbah'', Grasset
*1939: ''Le Bain juif'', Grasset
*1942: ''Mourad'', La Toison d'or
*1946: ''Doudjda'', Denoël
*1948: ''Mourad II'', Denoël
;Theatre
*1934: ''Isabelle d'Afrique''
*1935: ''Prosper, légende en quatre parties et douze tableaux'', Alger, Baconnier, 1935 ; directed by
Gaston Baty
Gaston Baty (26 May 1885 – 13 October 1952), whose full name was Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty, was a French playwright and theatre director. He was born in Pélussin, Loire, France.
Career
In 1921, Baty formed his own company ''Les Compag ...
at the
Théâtre Montparnasse
The Théâtre Montparnasse is a theatre at 31, rue de la Gaîté in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.
History
After the death of famed Paris theatre builder and artistic director Henri Larochelle (1826-1884), his widow, along with former actor ...
Translations
* ''The Temptations of Mourad'', translated from the French by Willard R. Trask, New York, W. Morrow, 1948
See also
*
Algerianism
Bibliography
* Denise Brahimi, ''Femmes arabes et sœurs musulmanes'', Tierce, 1984, p. 75
* Sakina Messaadi, ''Les romancières coloniales et la femme colonisée : contribution à une étude de la littérature coloniale en Algérie dans la première moitié du XXe siècle'', Éditions ANEP, 2004, p. 44
* ''Écrivains français d'Algérie et société coloniale 1900-1950'', Éditions Kailash, « Les Cahiers de la Sielec #5 », 2008
References
External links
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20th-century French novelists
20th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French women dramatists and playwrights
1894 births
Writers from Paris
1958 deaths
20th-century French women writers