Maïssa Bey

Samia Benameur, who writes as Maïssa Bey, was born in 1950 in Ksar el Boukhari. After studying literature at the University of Algiers, she taught French in Sidi Bel Abbès, in western Algeria, where since 2000 she has run the association Paroles et écritures, and co-founded the publishing house Chèvre-feuille étoilée. A novelist and short-story writer, she received in 1998 the Société des gens de lettres grand prize for the short story for Nouvelles d'Algérie, then in 2001 the Prix Marguerite-Audoux for Cette fille-là.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelAu commencement était la merMaïssa Bey · 1996not translated into EnglishLiterature