Awarded Stig Dagerman Prize (2026).
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Kamel Daoud
Kamel Daoud is an Algerian writer and journalist. He is best known for his 2013 novel Meursault, contre-enquête and his 2024 novel Houris.
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culture · Algerian writer and journalist · journalist · writer · also Kamel Daoud, ⴽⴰⵎⴰⵍ ⴷⴰⵡⴷ, Daoud
Born 17 June 1970 · Q3192364
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2026· 2 entries
Newsday: French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud says Algeria sentenced him to 3 years for award-winning novel
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2024· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Goncourt for Houris (2024).
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His current wife, Aïcha Dahdouh, is the psychologist to whom Saâda Arbane said she revealed details of her personal life, which found their way into Daoud's 2024 novel.
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2023· 1 entry
After the head of the secret service in Oran invited him in "for a cup of coffee", which, according to Daoud, was the prelude to an arrest
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2022· 1 entry
On a state visit to Algeria, President Macron had dinner with Daoud
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded Prix de la laïcité (2020).
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2019· 3 entries
Awarded Revue des deux Mondes prize for Le Peintre dévorant la femme (2019).
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Awarded Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (2019).
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That his criticism of the regime ramped up
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2018· 1 entry
His Le Quotidien d'Oran articles (2010-2016) were translated into English, as Chroniques: Selected Columns: 2010-2016
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded Livre et droits humains award (2017).
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Published Zabor ou Les psaumes (published in English as Zabor, or The Psalms in 2021)
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2016· 1 entry
That Daoud's attorney called "unprecedented": Zeraoui was sentenced to three to six months in prison and a 50,000-dinar fine
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Goncourt du premier roman (2015).
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2014· 4 entries
Awarded Prix François Mauriac (Aquitaine) (2014).
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Awarded Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie (2014).
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Started writing opinion pieces on a range of issues for the conservative French weekly magazine Le Point
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“If we do not come to a decision on the place of God in the”
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2013· 1 entry
Then in France in 2014, was acclaimed by critics not only in France, but also in Anglophone countries
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2011· 3 entries
Was editor of the paper and still writing the column
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Was briefly arrested for participating in a demonstration
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Includes: L'Ami d’Athènes; Gibrîl au Kérosène; La Préface du nègre; L’Arabe et le vaste pays de Ô
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2010· 1 entry
Which his colleagues encouraged him to expand
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2008· 2 entries
Daoud divorced his first wife in 2008 after she had become increasingly religious.
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After she had become increasingly religious
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1998· 1 entry
Wrote about the massacre at Had Chekala massacre, which was one of a number of villages where hundreds of inhabitants were killed during Ramadan by Islamist forces
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1994· 2 entries
Career landmark: editor-in-chief (1994–2015).
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Daoud began working for Le Quotidien d'Oran, a French-language Algerian newspaper
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1970· 2 entries
Born 1970-06-17.
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The oldest of six children in an Arabic-speaking Muslim family
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