found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 23, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Sebbar, Leila; cultural critic, fiction writer; born 09 November 1941 in Aflou, Algeria; wrote the well-known and much celebrated trilogy: “Shérazade: 17 ans, brune, frisée et les yeux verts” (1984; English translation, Sherazade, Missing: Aged 17, dark curly hair, green eyes, 2000), Les carnets de Shérazade (Sherazade's Notebooks, 1985), and Le fou de Shérazade (Sherazade's Crazy Man, 1991); a novel “Parle mon fils, parle à ta mere” (Talk Son, Talk to Your Mother, 1984), articulates the frustration of two generations who do not share a common language; an important contributor to the journal “Immigration and the Third World: Without Borders” (1979-1981); started a correspondence with Nancy Huston, “Lettres parisiennes, autopsie de l'exil avec Nancy Huston” (Parisian Letters, Autopsy of Exile with Nancy Huston, 1993); edited three major collections of stories on childhood, colonialism, and the postcolonial period: “Une enfance d'ailleurs avec Nancy Huston” (A Childhood from Elsewhere, with Nancy Huston, 1993), “Une enfance algérienne” (An Algerian Childhood, 1997), and “Une enfance outremer” (An Overseas Childhood, 2001))
