had a research appointment at the Algerian Cultural Center. In 1997, Djebar became the director for the Center of French and Francophone Studies at Louisiana State University. She held that position until 2001. In 1985, Djebar published L'Amour, la fantasia (translated as Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, Heinemann, 1993), in which she "repeatedly states her ambivalence about language, about her identification as a Western-educated, Algerian, feminist, Muslim intellectual, about her role as spokesperson for Algerian women as well as for women in general." In 2005, Djebar was elected to France's foremost literary institution, the Académie française, an institution tasked with guarding the heritage of the French language and whose members, known as the "immortals", are chosen for life. She was the first writer from North Africa to be elected to the organization. and the fifth woman to join the academy. Djebar was a Silver Chair professor of Francophone literature at New York University. 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. Djebar died in February 2015, aged 78 in Paris, France. Awards In 1985, she won the Franco-Arab Friendship Prize, for L'Amour la Fantasia. In 1996, 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 1998, she won the International Prize of Palmi. In 2000, she won the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Tribute On 30 June 2017, Google dedicated a Doodle to the novelist for the 81st anniversary of her birth. The Doodle reached all the countries of the Arab World. Works La Soif, 1957 (English: The Mischief) Les impatients, 1958 Les Enfants du Nouveau Monde, 1962 (English: Children of the New World: a novel, trans. Marjolijn De Jager: New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2005; ) Les Alouettes naïves, 1967 Poème pour une algérie heureuse, 1969 Rouge l'aube L'Amour, la fantasia, 1985 (English: Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, trans. Dorothy S. Blair; Portsmouth, N.H., Heinemann, 1993 (repr. 2003), ) Ombre sultane 1987 (English: A Sister to Scheherazade) Loin de Médine, (English: Far from Medina) Vaste est la prison, 1995 (English: So Vast the Prison, trans. Betsy Wing; Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 2002; ) Le blanc de l'Algérie, 1996 (English: Algerian White) Oran, langue morte, 1997 (English: The Tongue's Blood Does