Leila Sebbar: Writing and Living

This interview with the author Lelia Sebbar (1941) aims at taking a retrospective look with her, analyzing the conditions of her "coming to writing" as Helene Cixous put it. The interview deals with varied aspects of the writing process revolving around three main axes: reading, writing and publishing. During this interview, relevant themes to Lelia Sebbar appear the exile, the absence of Arabic in her linguistic biography, but also the happiness of writing, alone or together, and that of tirelessly pursuing very original and special work.