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Jeanne Benameur
Jeanne Benameur (born 1952 in French Algeria) is a French woman writer. Her father was Algerian and her mother was Italian. The family moved to La Rochelle when Benameur was 5 years old.
A professor of French until 2001, Benameur has published with various publishing houses, most notably Éditions Denoël and Éditions Thierry Magnier. In spite of her multicultural origins (Algerian, Italian, and French), Benameur only writes in French. In 2001, her novel "Les Demeurées" won the Unicef Prize
LaVerne Jeanne
LaVerne Masayesva Jeanne is an anthropologist and linguist at the University of Nevada at Reno, where she is an emerita associate professor.
She received her PhD at MIT, where she studied with linguist Ken Hale. Together with Navajo Paul R. Platero, Jeanne is one of the first two Native Americans to have received a degree in linguistics.
Her work has been primarily focused on the Hopi language (her mother language). Her 1978 thesis (supervised by Hale) was entitled "Aspects of Hopi Grammar"