{"id":145121,"date":"2024-11-04T13:19:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T13:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parisselectbook.com\/2024\/11\/04\/kamel-daoud-wins-the-prix-goncourt-2024-for-houris\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T13:22:34","slug":"kamel-daoud-wins-the-prix-goncourt-2024-for-houris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parisselectbook.com\/en\/2024\/11\/04\/kamel-daoud-wins-the-prix-goncourt-2024-for-houris\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamel Daoud wins the Prix Goncourt 2024 for “Houris”."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Monday, the Goncourt jurors met at the Drouant restaurant in Paris to announce their winner. Kamel Daoud won this prestigious literary prize in the first round with six votes. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Literary courage<\/h2>\n\n

Kamel Daoud’s victory for his novel Houris<\/em> published by Gallimard<\/strong> is an act of courage on the part of the jury. Indeed, Algeria banned Gallimard’s participation in the Salon International du Livre d’Alger<\/strong> because of the same novel. Houris<\/em> tells the harrowing story of Aube, a survivor of Algeria’s black decade (1991-2002), a period marked by extreme violence between the army and Islamists, resulting in up to 200,000 deaths<\/strong>. Aube, pregnant and mutilated, speaks to her unborn daughter, revealing the horrors she has endured. Daoud’s approach encourages us to break the amnesia imposed by the 2005 “Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation”. <\/p>\n\n

A powerful, incantatory language<\/h2>\n\n

Journalist and author Kamel Daoud, born in 1970 in Mostaganem<\/strong>, covered these traumatic events during his career at Le Quotidien d’Oran<\/strong>, starting in 1994. He declares that ” journalism is essential, but it is never enough to tell the story of a war<\/em> “. This phrase resonates throughout Houris<\/em>, a work described as a “polyphonic song”, exploring the pain of an Algeria marked by silence and oblivion. Despite criticisms of a style sometimes deemed repetitive and emphatic, the author’s narrative force and commitment remain undeniable. <\/p>\n\n

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