Djanet Lachmet (born 1948) is an Algerian novelist and actress.
Life Djanet Lachmet was born in a small town in Algeria. Forced into marriage at sixteen, she divorced three months later. Wanting to be a comedian, she studied drama for four years at Bordj El Kiffan. From 1968 to 1972 she lived in Canada, and later moved to Paris to work as an actress.
Works Le Cow-Boy. Paris: Belfond, 1983. Translated into English by Judith Still as Lallia, 1987. 'Une Composante de l'underground français', Actualités de l'émigration 80, 11 March 1986
References
Further reading Ammar-Khodja, Soumya. 'Djanet Lachmet. Le cow boy & Hafsa Zinaï-Koudil. La fin d'un rêve'. In Christiane Achour (ed.) Diwan d'inquiétude et d'espoir. La littérature féminine algérienne de langue française, ENAG/Éditions, 1991, pp. 390–411 Still, Judith 'Body and Culture: The representation of sexual, racial and class differences in Lachmet's Le Cow-boy.' In Margaret Atack & Phil Powrie (eds.) Contemporary French Fiction by Women: Feminist Perspectives, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990, pp. 71–83 Still, Judith. 'Djanet Lachmet's Le Cow-Boy: Constructing self - Arab and female', Paragraph 8 (October 1986), pp. 55–61