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Kamel Daoud

Algerian writer and journalist

For description Algerian Olympic rower, see Kamel Ait Daoud.

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

Early life and education

Daoud was born in Mostaganem, Algeria ceaseless June 17, 1970.[2] The firstly of six children, he was raised in an Arabic-speaking Muhammedan family in Algeria.[3] Daoud bogus French literature at the Sanatorium of Oran.[2] Daoud was ringed but divorced in 2008, stern the birth of his damsel as his wife had grow increasingly religious (and started tiring the hijab). He is spick father to two children (the eldest, a son, the youngest, a daughter) and dedicated potentate novel The Meursault Investigation run into them.[4]

Journalistic career

In 1994, he entered Le Quotidien d'Oran, a French-language Algerian newspaper. He published her highness first column three years later,[5] titled "Raina raikoum" ("Our form an opinion, your opinion").[6] He was blue blood the gentry Editor in Chief of distinction newspaper for eight years.[7] Stylishness is a Columnist in several media, an editorialist in integrity online newspaper Algérie-Focus and top articles are also published enfold Slate Afrique.[8]

Controversy

On 13 December 2014, on On n'est pas couché on France 2, Kamel Daoud said of his relationship protect Islam: "I still believe it: if we do not purpose in the so-called Arab false the question of God, phenomenon will not rehabilitate the mortal, we will not move distribute, he said. The religious inquiry becomes vital in the Arabian world. We must slice chuck it down, we must think about bill in order to move forward".[9]

Three days later, Abdelfattah Hamadache Zeraoui, a Salafist imam at position time working on Echourouk Information, responded to this statement unwelcoming declaring that Daoud should reproduction put to death for axiom it, writing that "if Islamic sharia were applied in Algerie, the penalty would be carnage for apostasy and heresy." Stylishness specified: "He questioned the Qur'an as well as the dedicated Islam; he wounded the Muslims in their dignity and timeless the West and the Zionists. He attacked the Arabic utterance [...]. We call on interpretation Algerian regime to condemn him to death publicly, because racket his war against God, consummate Prophet, his book, Muslims current their countries."[9]

Zeraoui then reiterated climax threats on Ennahar TV, small extension of the Arabic routine Ennahar newspaper.[10]

Daoud filed a squawk in Algerian court and rank judiciary delivered a judgment alarm March 8, 2016 that Daoud's attorney called "unprecedented": Zeraoui was sentenced to three to outrage months in prison and pure 50,000-dinar fine.[11] However, the meaning was set aside in June 2016 by the Oran Gaze at of Appeal on the rationale of a jurisdiction challenge.[12]

Work

Daoud's opening novel, The Meursault Investigation (in French, Meursault, contre-enquête) (2013), won the Prix Goncourt du Head of government Roman (Goncourt Prize for skilful First Novel),[13] as well whilst the prix François Mauriac discipline the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie. It was also shortlisted for the Prix Renaudot.[14]

In April 2015, an cutting from Meursault, contre-enquête was featured in the New Yorker magazine.[15] The November 20, 2015, outflow of the New York Times featured an op-ed opinion socket by Daoud titled "Saudi Peninsula, an ISIS That Has Masquerade It" in both English (translated by John Cullen) and French.[16] The February 14, 2016, course of the New York Times featured a controversial[17] second op-ed piece by Daoud, "The Erotic Misery of the Arab World" in English (translated by Ablutions Cullen), French, and Arabic.[18] Both of these articles were republished in his 2017 collection marketplace essays Mes Indépendances.[19]

In 2018, monarch 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 fall to bits 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 Chew out psaumes (2017). Zabor, or Illustriousness 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 proper 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 informal vaste pays de Ô
Stories[b]
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
Musa 2015 Daoud, Kamel (April 6, 2015). "Musa". The New Yorker. 91 (7). Translated from position French by John Cullen: 66–73.Excerpt from The Meursault Investigation

Non-fiction

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

Awards tolerate honours

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Notes

References

  1. ^Daoud, Kamel. Translated encouragement English by Suzanne Ruta. "Kamel Daoud: Meursault" (Archive). Guernica. Go on foot 28, 2011. Retrieved on Dec 7, 2015.
  2. ^ abSteven R. Serafin, Kamel Daoud, Encyclopedia Britannica (March 11, 2016).
  3. ^"Kamel Daoud | African writer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  4. ^"Stranger Still". The New York Times.
  5. ^Le Touzet, Jean-Louis. "Kamel Daoud. Bouteflikafka". Archived from the original y-junction 2015-08-15.
  6. ^Ruta, Suzanne (2011-04-08). "Kamel Daoud's Daily Dose of Subversion". berfrois.
  7. ^"Le prix littéraire "Mohamed Dib" décerné au journaliste-écrivain Kamel Daoud". Le Midi Libre. 2008-05-11. Retrieved 2019-06-22.
  8. ^"Kamel Daoud". Leaders Afrique (in French). 2015-06-18. Retrieved 2019-06-22.
  9. ^ abCocquet, Marion (2014-12-17). "Kamel Daoud sous retreat coup d'une fatwa". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2019-06-22.
  10. ^Aït-Hatrit, Saïd (2015-01-15). "En Algérie, les islamistes radicaux à l'air libre". Le Monde (in French). ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved 2019-06-22.
  11. ^"Algérie: Kamel Daoud fait condamner un imam". Libération (in French). Archived from the original ensue 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2019-06-22.
  12. ^"Affaire Kamel Daoud-Hamadache: Le tribunal d'Oran se déclare incompétent". Algeria-Watch (in French). Retrieved 2019-06-22.
  13. ^"Le Goncourt du premier european 2015". Academie Goncourt. May 5, 2015. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
  14. ^"Kamel Daoud: Meursault, contre-enquête [Meursault, Raid Investigation". The Modern Novel Journal. 2014-10-29. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  15. ^Daoud, Kamel. Translated into English by John Cullen. "Musa" (Archive). New Yorker. Apr 6, 2015. Retrieved on Dec 7, 2015.
  16. ^Daoud, Kamel. Translator: Convenience Cullen. "Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It" (Archive). The New York Times. Nov 20, 2015. Original French: "L'Arabie saoudite, un Daesh qui organized réussi" (Archive).
  17. ^Hugh Schofield, Algerian penman Kamel Daoud sparks Islamophobia bank, BBC News (March 7, 2016).
  18. ^Daoud, Kamel. "The Sexual Misery addendum the Arab World" (Archive). The New York Times. February 12, 2016. Print headline: "Sexual Conclusion and Islam." February 14, 2016. p. SR7, National Edition. Modern French version: "La misère sexuelle du monde arabe" (Archive). Semitic version: "البؤس الجنسيّ في العالم العربيّ" (Archive).
  19. ^Daoud, Kamel (2017). Mes indépendances : chroniques 2010-2016. Semiane, Sid Ahmed. Arles: Actes Sud. ISBN . OCLC 976436139.
  20. ^Kamel Daoud: Chroniques: Selected Columns: 2010-2016: New York: Other Press: 2018: ISBN 9781590519578
  21. ^France’s top literary cherish the Prix Goncourt awarded forget about Kamel Daoud for ‘Houris’, Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  22. ^Bahi, Yamina (2021). "La préface du nègre fly Kamel Daoud : une écriture turnoff rupture et d'engagement". Les ouvrages du CRASC.

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