Faïza Guène

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Faïza Guène (2015)

Faïza Guène (* 1985 in Bobigny ) is a French author and filmmaker.

Life

After primary school she attended the Collège Jean Jaurès in Pantin , where she worked for the school newspaper and took part in literary projects. At the Lycée Marcelin Berthelot in Pantin, Guène was involved in a short film La zonzonnière at the age of 14 . She then successfully studied social sciences at the University of Bobigny ( Université Paris XIII ), after which she switched to the Université Paris VIII in Saint-Denis , where she abandoned her studies in favor of a career in writing and film.

Festival participant

2007: Guest in the children and youth program of the 7th International Literature Festival Berlin

Works

The daughter of Algerian immigrants, who grew up in the Parisian banlieue , in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, wrote the bestseller Kiffe kiffe demain in 2004, at the age of 19 , which has now been published in 27 countries, translated into 22 languages. She writes, often using non-standard expressions (French "slang" such as Verlan and Argot ) and interspersed with bitter irony, about the life of immigrants in the banlieue.

  • Kiffe kiffe demain . Also as Reclam Foreign Language Texts , 2012 ISBN 9783150197905
    • German: Paradisische Aussichten. Translated by Anja Nattefort
  • You reve pour les oufs.
    • English: dreams for madmen . Translated by Anja Nattefort
  • Les gens du Balto.
  • The Babar Syndrome, transl. Susanne Röckel . In blue, white, red. France tells. Ed. Olga Mannheimer. dtv, Munich 2017 ISBN 9783423261524 pp. 251–258

literature

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notes

  1. ↑ First translation. From: Un homme, ça ne pleure pas. Fayard, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Guène, Faïza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Bobigny