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, organisers ...
For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war. Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria’s ...
France’s top literary prize. Daoud was awarded the accolade for a novel based on Algeria’s bloody civil war between Islamist militias and the country’s army in the 1990s. The coveted prize ...