Kamel Daoud, the Franco-Algerian author awarded the 2024 Goncourt Prize for his novel « Houris, » is facing two international arrest warrants issued by Algeria. His lawyer, Jacqueline Laffont, claims these warrants are politically motivated, aimed at silencing him for addressing Algeria’s violent past in his work, which is banned in Algeria. Daoud’s novel explores the « black decade » of civil conflict and has led to multiple legal complaints against him, including accusations of violating national reconciliation laws. His publisher, Gallimard, has condemned the defamatory campaigns against him, while Daoud faces a separate privacy complaint in France.
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Des « motivations politiques » : l’écrivain Kamel Daoud sous le coup de deux mandats d’arrêt internationaux émis par l’Algérie.
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