Kamel Daoud Wins Goncourt for 'Houris' on Algeria’s War

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Goncourt 2024 Literature Prize Paris Algeria

French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, on Monday for a novel centered on Algeria's civil war between the government and Islamists in the 1990s. The jury needed just one round of voting to award the coveted prize to Daoud for his novel Houris, which explores what has become known as Algeria's "Black ...