Novelist Boualem Sansal Elected to Académie Française Months After ...

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The French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal was elected to the French Academy on Thursday, three months after being released from prison in Algeria.

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The writer Boualem Sansal was elected on Thursday 29 January to the French Academy, almost unanimously and in the first round of the election, by 25 votes out of 26, note France 24. The academy is composed of 40 members (some seats being vacant), elected by their peers. The Franco-Algerian thus inherits the chair number 3, taking the place of the lawyer and writer Jean-Denis Bredin, disappeared in 2021. Three months after his release from prison…

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Franco-Algérien writer Boualem Sansal was elected to the French Academy on Thursday, two and a half months after being pardoned by Algeria where he had been detained almost a year, announced several French media. ...

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The Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal was elected to the French Academy on Thursday, almost three months after his release from prison in Algeria.

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The writer, who spent a year in prison in Algeria before being pardoned by President Tebboune, has just been admitted to the Academy by 25 votes out of 26 in the first round of voting.