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Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. She is "frequently associated with women's writing movements, her novels are clearly focused on the creation of a genealogy of Algerian women, and her political stance is virulently anti-patriarchal as much as it is anti-colonial. For the entire body of her work she was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

She was often named as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Later, Djebar attended a Quranic private boarding school in Blida , where she was one of only two girls. Another book, Les Impatients , followed the next year. Djebar taught at the University of Rabat — and then at the University of Algiers where she was made the department head for the French section.

She lived in Paris between and before returning to Algeria again. She remarried in to the Algerian poet Malek Alloula. The couple lived in Paris , where she had a research appointment at the Algerian Cultural Center. She held that position until She was the first writer from North Africa to be elected to the organization. Djebar was known as a voice of reform for Islam across the Arab world, especially in the field of advocating for increased rights for women.

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Djebar died in February , aged 78 in Paris, France. In , Djebar won the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature for her contribution to world literature. The following year, she won the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize. In , she won the International Prize of Palmi.