Kamel Daoud

Publisher defends prize-winning French novel after Algerian victim’s claims

Publisher defends prize-winning French novel after Algerian victim’s claims

  • Kamel Daoud’s novel “Houris” centered on Algeria’s civil war between the government and Islamists in the 1990s
  • Survivor of a massacre alleged on Algerian TV that the main character in the book is based on her experiences
By AFP ·