Omar Youssef Souleimane: "I Believe that War Produces Humanist Writers"

Marianne

Lean Left

Factuality

Ownership

Born in Syria in the vicinity of Damascus, Omar Youssef Souleimane did not speak French when he landed in the Hexagon in 2012, at the age of 23, to escape the civil war. He soon learned. In 2015, he published his first novel, "The Little Terrorist" (Flammarion), in the language of Molière. Ten years later, his fifth opus (already), "L-Arabe qui sourit" (Flammarion) just won the new Literary Prize of the Quai d'Orsay in early June. For Marianne, …