Kamel Daoud, and his publisher Gallimard, denounces the "forced or inaccurate parallels" between his novel "Houris" and the life of Saâda Arbane

Aimed at by two international arrest warrants issued by Algeria, a complaint and a summons in France, the author, supported by his publisher, considers that the novel, rewarded by the Goncourt 2024, "inspires from historical and personal elements, but is neither a biography nor a self-fiction".

CHRONIQUE. What good of poets in these wild times? What good of writing when you are a harassed writer, threat, condemns exile? Why write? Questions that haunt the Prix Goncourt 2024.

The Franco-Algérien author, prosecuted in Algeria and France for his novel "Houris", claims his innocence and denounces intimidation. Kamel Daoud, winner of the Goncourt Prize in 2024, finds himself at the heart of a judicial storm. The writer claims to be a victim of an instrumentalisation of justice, after the issuance of international arrest warrants against him by the [...] Article Kamel Daoud in the face of the judicial turmoil: the writer …

The Algerian judiciary has issued two international arrest warrants against writer Kamel Daoud and his psychiatrist wife, which the Franco-Algérien challenges.

Algérie. L'écrivain Kamel Daoud dénonce « une forme de persécution judiciaire »

La justice algérienne a lancé deux mandats d'arrêts internationaux contre l'écrivain Kamel Daoud et son épouse psychiatre. Des procédures que le franco-algérien conteste.