Algeria · b. 1970
Kamel Daoud won the 2024 Prix Goncourt for "Houris," a novel addressing the Algerian civil war through a woman who cannot speak. The Algerian author's debut "The Meursault Investigation" reimagined Camus's "The Stranger" from the murdered Arab's brother's perspective. Daoud writes about Algeria's violent past and complicated present with formal ambition.