Lynda Chouiten
Lynda Chouiten | |
|---|---|
ليندة شويتن | |
| Born | 1977 (age 48–49) Tizi Ouzou, Algeria |
| Awards | Assia Djebar Great Prize 2019 Une Valse |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | National University of Ireland, Galway (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Literature |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | University of Boumerdès |
Lynda Chouiten (Arabic: ليندة شويتن; born 1977 in Tizi Ouzou) is an Algerian writer in French.[1] She is the author of several books. She focuses on French and francophone cultures and literatures, postcolonial culture and literature, comparative literature, travel literature, Orientalism, cultural representation, literary theory, British literature and civilization (especially Victorian), discourse and power, and gender studies.[2]
Chouiten was born in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria. She earned a PhD in French Studies from the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has been head of the Scientific Committee of the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures at the University of Boumerdès since September 2015.[3]
Her novel, Une Valse, won the 2019 Assia Djebar Great Prize.[4]
Works
- Isabelle Eberhardt[5]
- Essays on the Discursive Constructions, Manifestations, and Subversions of Authority[6]
- Translated poetry Just Above Silence (Juste au-dessus du silence) by Anna Greki[7]
References
- ^ "Lynda Chouiten". Google Scholar. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
- ^ Murua, James (14 November 2024). "Book Digest: Chido Muchemwa, Lynda Chouiten, Tomilola Coco Adeyemo, Dreda Say Mitchell". Retrieved 23 August 2025.
- ^ instituto superior de contabilidade e administracao do porto Lynda Chouiten CV
- ^ "Lynda Chouiten | University Of Boumerdes Algeria - Academia.edu". umbb.academia.edu. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
- ^ Chouiten, Lynda (2012). Dictionary of Literary Biography: Orientalist Writers. Vol. 366. Coeli Fitzpatrick. pp. 59–66. ISBN 978-0-7876-8184-5.
- ^ Chouiten, Lynda (2016). Essays on the Discursive Constructions, Manifestations, and Subversions of Authority. Vol. 366. cambridge scholars publishing. p. 327. ISBN 978-1-4438-8880-6.
- ^ "Just Above Silence" (Juste au-dessus du silence) by Anna Greki. Transference 2, 1 (2014): 16-17.