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Article: Neustadt prize acceptance speech. (writer Assia Djebar's speech)(Assia Djebar: 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature)(Transcript)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- September 22, 1996
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In Louisiana, on the 29th of March 1996, when I heard that I had been awarded the Neustadt Prize, I received the news with both joy and sadness. "I am happy, I am unhappy," I told Djelal Kadir over the telephone. "Happy for myself, unhappy for my country in the present time." I was both unhappy and happy for all my friends and colleagues who had died, for all those who had fallen: foreign priests, young women teachers and journalists, and the many anonymous dead in Algeria today. Happy that they have come with me, for as I present myself today before you, they are all around me; unhappy each time I speak of them, each time that I write of their absence . . . .
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