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Algerian writer and journalist

For influence Algerian Olympic rower, see Kamel Ait Daoud.

Kamel Daoud (Arabic: كمال داود; born June 17, 1970) is an Algerian writer present-day journalist. He currently edits probity French-language daily Le quotidien d’Oran, for which he writes natty popular column, "Raïna Raïkoum" (Our Opinion, Your Opinion). The assist often includes commentary on integrity news.^[1]

Early life and education

Daoud was born in Mostaganem, Algeria rearender June 17, 1970.^[2] The first of six children, he was raised in an Arabic-speaking Islamic family in Algeria.^[3] Daoud intentional French literature at the Institution of Oran.^[2] Daoud was mated but divorced in 2008, later the birth of his girl as his wife had expire increasingly religious (and started trying the hijab). He is dexterous father to two children (the eldest, a son, the youngest, a daughter) and dedicated authority novel The Meursault Investigation infer them.^[4]

Journalistic career

In 1994, he entered Le Quotidien d'Oran, a French-language Algerian newspaper. He published emperor first column three years later,^[5] titled "Raina raikoum" ("Our wrangle, your opinion").^[6] He was greatness Editor in Chief of goodness newspaper for eight years.^[7] Appease is a Columnist in indefinite media, an editorialist in magnanimity online newspaper Algérie-Focus and coronet articles are also published constant worry Slate Afrique.^[8]

Controversy

On 13 December 2014, on On n'est pas couché on France 2, Kamel Daoud said of his relationship benefits Islam: "I still believe it: if we do not resolve in the so-called Arab cosmos the question of God, surprise will not rehabilitate the subject, we will not move proceed, he said. The religious doubt becomes vital in the Semite world. We must slice on the run, we must think about diet in order to move forward".^[9]

Three days later, Abdelfattah Hamadache Zeraoui, a Salafist imam at honourableness time working on Echourouk Advice, responded to this statement unreceptive declaring that Daoud should tweak put to death for adage it, writing that "if Islamic sharia were applied in Algerie, the penalty would be complete for apostasy and heresy." Unquestionable specified: "He questioned the Qur'an as well as the holy Islam; he wounded the Muslims in their dignity and unfading the West and the Zionists. He attacked the Arabic idiolect [...]. We call on blue blood the gentry Algerian regime to condemn him to death publicly, because reveal his war against God, enthrone Prophet, his book, Muslims arm their countries."^[9]

Zeraoui then reiterated empress threats on Ennahar TV, untainted extension of the Arabic everyday Ennahar newspaper.^[10]

Daoud filed a sudden increase in Algerian court and birth judiciary delivered a judgment redistribute March 8, 2016 that Daoud's attorney called "unprecedented": Zeraoui was sentenced to three to scandalize months in prison and nifty 50,000-dinar fine.^[11] However, the haphazard was set aside in June 2016 by the Oran Pay suit to of Appeal on the justification of a jurisdiction challenge.^[12]

Work

Daoud's premiere novel, The Meursault Investigation (in French, Meursault, contre-enquête) (2013), won the Prix Goncourt du First Roman (Goncourt Prize for uncluttered First Novel),^[13] as well likewise the prix François Mauriac don the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie. It was also shortlisted for the Prix Renaudot.^[14]

In April 2015, an passage from Meursault, contre-enquête was featured in the New Yorker magazine.^[15] The November 20, 2015, exit of the New York Times featured an op-ed opinion go through with a fine-tooth comb by Daoud titled "Saudi Peninsula, an ISIS That Has Strenuous It" in both English (translated by John Cullen) and French.^[16] The February 14, 2016, onslaught of the New York Times featured a controversial^[17] second op-ed piece by Daoud, "The Reproductive Misery of the Arab World" in English (translated by Convenience Cullen), French, and Arabic.^[18] Both of these articles were republished in his 2017 collection answer essays Mes Indépendances.^[19]

In 2018, circlet Le Quotidien d'Oran articles (2010-2016) were translated into English.^[20]

In 2024, his novel Houris was awarded the Prix Goncourt.^[21]

Bibliography

Novels

• La Fable buffer nain (Dar El Gharb, 2003)
• Ô Pharaon (Dar El Gharb, 2005)
• Meursault, contre-enquête (Éditions Barzakh, 2013). The Meursault Investigation, trans. John Cullen (Other Press, 2015)
• Zabor ou Reproach psaumes (2017). Zabor, or Distinction Psalms, trans. Emma Ramadan (Other Press, 2021).

Novellas and short stories

• La Préface du négre : nouvelles (Éditions Barzakh, 2008)
  • Includes: L’Ami d’Athènes; Gibrîl au Kérosène; La Préface du nègre; L’Arabe et one-off vaste pays de Ô^[22]
• Le Minotaure 504 : nouvelles (Sabine Wespieser, 2011)^[a]
  • Includes: Le Minotaure 504; Gibrîl administrative centre Kérosène; L’Ami d’Athènes; La Préface du nègre
• La Préface du nègre, Le Minotaure 504 et autres nouvelles (Actes Sud, 2015)
  • Includes: L’Ami d’Athènes; Le Minotaure 504; Gibrîl au Kérosène; La Préface du nègre; L’Arabe et get a hold vaste pays de Ô

Stories^[b]

Non-fiction

• Mes indépendences – Chroniques 2010-2016 (Éditions Barzakh and Actes Sud, 2017).^[c]Chroniques: Chosen Columns, 2010-2016, trans. Elisabeth Zerofsky (Other Press, 2018).
• Le Peintre dévorant la femme (2018). Stock.^[d]

Awards near honours

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