Latifa Ben Mansour
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Latifa Ben Mansour (Arabic: لطيفة بن منصور) (born 1950 in Tlemcen) is an Algerian writer and linguist. Having studied Linguistics at the École Normale Supérieure d'Alger, where she obtained her Ph.D. in the subject, she went on to teach it at the University of Paris III and communications at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.
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.
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- Trente-trois Tours à son Turban (play, Rencontres Théâtrales du Niger, Mar 2003, directed by Boubacar Ibrahim Dambagi)
- L'Année de l'Eclipse (novel, Calmann-Lévy, 2001)
- La Prière de la Peur (novel, La Différence, 1997)
- Le Chant du Lys et du Basilic (novel, J.-C. Lattès, 1990, 2nd edition by La Différence in 1998)
- Trente-trois Tours à son Turban (play, Actes-Sud-Papiers)
