Prix ​​Goncourt, Kamel Daoud will soon dedicate his book “Houris” in Nîmes

Kamel Daoud was one of the favorites for the Goncourt prize, the academy crowned him for his novel Houriswhich he will come to dedicate in Nîmes at the Aux lettres de mon moulin bookstore on Wednesday, December 4 at 7 p.m.

Already winner of the Goncourt for the first novel for his Meursault counter-investigationthe author of Algerian origin evokes in his new book the years of civil war through the story of a hairdresser who was rendered mute by an attempt to slit her throat. The jurors made a very political choice by saluting the work of a committed writer, whose book was banned in Algeria.

Born in 1970, writer, journalist, Kamel Daoud recently moved to France. With this book published by Gallimard, he breaks a ban in his country, whose charter of national reconciliation prevents any mention of the massacres of the Black Decade.