Houris

Name: Houris
ISBN: 9789026370847

by Kamel Daoud

Prix Goncourt · 2024 · Winner

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GallimardAugust 22, 2024Literary FictionISBN 9789026370847

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Prix Goncourt	2024	Winner

About This Book

Set during and after the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s, a survivor who cannot speak addresses her unborn child, telling the story of the terrible decade of violence and its aftermath. Banned in Algeria on publication.

About the Author

Kamel DaoudDZ

Kamel Daoud is an Algerian-French novelist and journalist born in 1970 in Mostaganem, Algeria. He worked for many years as a journalist and columnist for the Algerian newspaper Le Quotidien d'Oran, where his provocative commentary made him one of the most prominent voices in Algerian public debate. He was the subject of a fatwa in 2014. Read more →