Whether the jury for the Prix Goncourt intended it or not, awarding France's most prestigious literary prize for the first time to an Algerian writer, Kamel Daoud, is a political event. The award ...

Give Kamel Daoud credit for audacity. In his debut novel, “The Meursault Investigation,” the Algerian journalist goes head-to-head with a pillar of 20th century literature: Albert Camus’ existential ...

Kamel Daoud edits the Algerian daily Le Quotidien d'Oran and is the author of the novel The Meursault Investigation. In every myth, the monster has a father and a mother. And so it is with ISIS ...

Kamel Daoud, author of “The Meursault Investigation” and columnist for the Algerian paper Le Quotidien d’Oran, will speak at Yale on Monday, Nov. 9 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. “Meursault et ...

The title alone would seem to give the game away, the game being the author’s intention of challenging a classic novel. At best it could be a contrived exercise in literary deconstruction, at worst a ...

ALGIERS, Algeria — As one of the Arab world’s largest book fairs opens in Algeria on Wednesday, there is one conspicuous absence. French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud, who won France’s most prestigious ...

Kamel Daoud has provoked strong feelings on both sides of the debate If you want a reminder of how fractious life can feel in modern-day Europe, then take a look at the furious row in France over the ...

The most talked-about novel written in French recently is not by a Frenchman, but by an Algerian, newspaper editor Kamel Daoud. It's called The Meursault Investigation, and it's a response to the most ...

Kamel Daoud is an Algerian writer and journalist. He was born in 1970 in Mostaganem, 350 kilometers west of Algiers. He holds a diploma in French studies from the University of Oran. He began his ...

If you want a reminder of how fractious life can feel in modern-day Europe, then take a look at the furious row in France over the writings of Kamel Daoud. Kamel Daoud is the Algerian novelist who ...