Background
Leila Marouane was born in 1960 in Djerba, Tunisia. Her father was a writer.
2002
Paris, France
Leila Marouane in Paris, France. Photo by Ulf Andersen
2002
Paris, France
Leila Marouane in Paris, France. Photo by Ulf Andersen
2 Rue de la Liberté, 93200 Saint-Denis, France
Leila Marouane attended the University of Paris VIII.
Leila Marouane. Photo by Eric Robert
Leila Marouane
(A Muslim family experiences tragedy and growth under Isla...)
A Muslim family experiences tragedy and growth under Islamic law when their father, Aziz Zeitoun, violently repudiates his wife, Nayla, then attempts to remarry her within Islamic regulations.
https://www.amazon.com/Abductor-Leila-Marouane/dp/0704381427/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Abductor+Marouane&qid=1601391906&s=books&sr=1-1
1998
(Basile Tocquard is handsome, wealthy, Parisian bank manag...)
Basile Tocquard is handsome, wealthy, Parisian bank manager. Born in Algeria, his life was once devoted to Sundays with his mother, family reunions, pious sobriety, and devout Islamism. But now the time has come for him to find a suitable apartment in the trendiest neighborhood in Paris, for aperitifs at the Deux Magots and the Café de Flore, for shopping sprees at the most exclusive boutiques in Paris. And for a sex life free of prohibitions! Thus his adventures begin. Unfortunately for him, but to the delight of the reader, his story is filtered through a rather unsympathetic female narrator who refuses to show our hero the attention he feels he deserves. The results are amusing, bizarre, and increasingly delusional. This exhilarating novel about traditions and modernity, obligation and emancipation, speaks to what it means to live in a society where cultures and ideologies often clash. With this portrait of a man balanced between two worlds–one in which heis both liberated and successful, the other in which he is conditioned by religion, family, and a hilariously overbearing mother – Leïla Marouane establishes herself as an original and talented chronicler of modern man's maladies and taboos.
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Life-Islamist-Paris/dp/1933372850/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Sexual+Life+of+an+Islamist+in+Paris&qid=1601392654&s=books&sr=1-1
2007
Leila Marouane was born in 1960 in Djerba, Tunisia. Her father was a writer.
Leila Marouane attended the University of Paris VIII.
Leila Marouane left her home in Algeria in 1990 to go to France to train as a journalist. After receiving the training she needed, Marouane worked in Algiers, Berlin, Zurich, and Paris. In Paris, she worked for Le Monde. Her first novel, La fille de la Casbah, was published in 1996. Le châtiment des hypocrites (2001) is the story of a woman who goes through traumatic hardships in her homeland of Algeria, before fleeing to Paris to live in the immigrant community.
Marouane made her debut in English in 2001, with The Abductor, a story of a man who disclaims his wife after she leaves the house without his permission. He feels remorseful after the fact: however, in the Muslim culture, the only way he can remarry his wife is if she marries another man who also disowns her. He plots with his peculiar neighbor to win his wife back. Unfortunately, the plan fails when the neighbor runs off with the wife, leaving him to care for his six children.
She also has published Les Criquelins (2004), La Jeune Fille et la Mère (2005), The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris (2007), Le Papier, l'encre et la braise (2009), etc.
(A Muslim family experiences tragedy and growth under Isla...)
1998(Basile Tocquard is handsome, wealthy, Parisian bank manag...)
2007Leila Marouane told about her literary influences: "I read tremendously and I do not have particular literary influences. I like texts that are sincere and literature that does not cheat, that does not pretend to be something it is not. Authors who influence me are authors who write with their flesh, with their blood. Ah! Still, there is someone I would like to name: Juan Rulfo. I am very often asked to explain the "shadow zone" of my characters, to put words on the upheavals they experience; upheavals that can lead them to madness or physical metamorphosis. I must say that my reading of Rulfo’s only novel "Pedro Paramo", has been a determinant factor in that perspective. A Mexican author, Rulfo founded what commentators later dubbed the "magic realism": the sudden transformation of "normal", "realistic" situations into "paranormal" or "magical" ones. This surge of magical elements in Rulfo’s work fascinated me and I have been trying to echo it in my novels."