Writer Kamel Daoud sued in France over prizewinning book


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Algerian writer Kamel Daoud poses during a photo session at the 26th "Les Correspondances" literature festival in Manosque, in 2024. Daoud is being sued in France for invasion of privacy by an Algerian survivor of a 1990s massacre in the north African country. — Photo: JOEL SAGET / AFP)

Acclaimed writer Kamel Daoud is being sued in France for invasion of privacy by an Algerian survivor of a 1990s massacre in the north African country, a source said on Friday, as tensions mount between the two countries.

In 2024, the French-Algerian writer won France's top literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, for his novel "Houris", centred on Algeria's civil war between the government and Islamists in the 1990s.

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