France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, has been awarded to Franco-Algerian author Kamel Daoud for his novel “Houris” - a fictional account of the massacres during Algeria's ...

Goncourt Prize winner Kamel Daoud waves from a window of the Drouant restaurant after receiving the award for his novel "Houris" in Paris, November 4, 2024. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP Announced at the same ...

His novel was praised for giving a voice to the victims of Algeria’s brutal civil war. But one woman has accused Kamel Daoud of having stolen her story – and the ensuing legal battle has become about ...

ALGIERS, Algeria — As one of the Arab world’s largest book fairs opens in Algeria on Wednesday, there is one conspicuous absence. French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud, who won France’s most prestigious ...

Paris (AFP) – French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud on Monday won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for a novel centred on Algeria's civil war between the government and Islamists in the 1990s, ...

Kamel Daoud, winner of the 2024 Goncourt literary prize, and his wife Aicha Dehdouh are being sued in Algerian court of Oran for allegedly using a personal story for Daoud’s novel Houris without ...

Whether the jury for the Prix Goncourt intended it or not, awarding France's most prestigious literary prize for the first time to an Algerian writer, Kamel Daoud, is a political event. The award ...

Acclaimed writer Kamel Daoud is being sued in France for invasion of privacy by an Algerian survivor of a 1990s massacre in the North African country, a source close to the case said on Friday. In ...

Kamel Daoud becomes the first author of Algerian descent to win the Goncourt Prize with his novel 'Houris', which is banned in Algeria for tackling the 'black decade' - the civil war that pitted ...