Algeria Sentences Exiled Writer Kamel Daoud to 5 Years in Prison: What to Know
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The conviction of Kamel Daoud and his wife, whose divorce he is awaiting, marks a new stage in a judicial marathon which, according to his entourage, aims to exhaust the writer.
Accused by a former patient of his wife, a psychiatrist, of looting his story for the book that won him the Goncourt Prize in 2024, the novelist was prosecuted in particular for "disclosure of professional secrecy", "subtraction of a medical record" and "injury of privacy".
Algeria sentences author Kamel Daoud to five years in prison over novel
The case stemmed from a complaint filed by a woman, whose psychotherapist was his wife, alleging that the prize-winning novel 'Houris' unlawfully used her life. Daoud and his wife were trialed in absentia.
He was prosecuted by a woman who accused him of stealing his story for his novel "Houris", Goncourt Prize 2024.
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The Oran court also sentenced his psychiatrist wife. A woman accuses the writer of using his story for his novel, Goncourt Prize 2024.
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