Lynda Chouiten


Lynda Chouiten an Algerian writer in French. 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, discourse and power, and gender studies.
Chouiten has 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 since September 2015.
Her novel, Une Valse, won the 2019 Assia Djebar Great Prize.

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