Yasmina Khadra

Yasmina Khadra

(1955) writer Algeria

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Yasmina Khadra (born 1955) was a Algeria writer, known for What the Day Owes the Night|Q3202540|The African Equation|Q18747259|The Swallows of Kabul|The dictator's last night|Q55598667|Q72011958.

About Yasmina Khadra

Mohammed Moulessehoul, better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra, is an Algerian author living in France, who writes in French. One of the most famous Algerian novelists in the world, he has written almost 40 novels, and has published in more than 50 countries. Khadra has often explored Algerian and other Arab countries' civil wars, depicting Muslim conflicts and reality, the attraction of radical Islamism to those alienated by the incompetence and hypocrisy of politicians, and conflicts between East and West. In his several writings on the Algerian war, he has exposed the regime and the fundamentalist opposition as the joint guilty parties in the country's tragedy.

Known for:

What the Day Owes the Night|Q3202540|The African Equation|Q18747259|The Swallows of Kabul|The dictator's last night|Q55598667|Q72011958

Notable works:

The Attack

Awards:

prix des Libraires|Q1733763|Prix Tropiques|Q3405629|Knight of the Legion of Honour|Officer of Arts and Letters|Q56306709|Pepe Carvalho Award|Q85352859|Prix Roman France Télévisions|honorary doctorate of Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France|Q130546991

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