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Anouar Benmalek (born January 16, 1956) is an Algerian novelist, journalist, mathematician and poet. After the 1988
riots in Algeria in protest of government policies, he became one of the founders of the Algerian Committee Against Torture.[1] His novel Lovers of Algeria was awarded the Prix Ragid. The novel, The Child of an Ancient People, won the
Prix RFO du livre.
Benmalek's work has been described as "elegiac, multilayered meditation on Algeria's violent history." He has been compared to
Camus and
Faulkner.[2]
He was born in
Casablanca to an Algerian father and a Moroccan mother.[3]
Rakesh, Vishnou et les autres nouvelles, Éd. Enal, 1985, Algiers
Ludmila, novel, Éd. Enal, 1986, Algiers
Les amants désunis, novel, Éd.
Calmann-Lévy, 1998, Paris; Éd. Livre de Poche, 2000; Prix Mimouni 1999 (translated into 10 languages, sélections Fémina et Médicis).
L'enfant du peuple ancien, novel,
Jean-Jacques Pauvert, August 2000, Paris; Ed. Livre de Poche, 2002; Prix des auditeurs de la RTBF (Radio Télévision Belge) 2001,
Prix RFO du livre 2001, Prix BeurFM-Méditerranée 2001, Prix Millepages 2000 (sélection Fémina, sélection rentrée littéraire 2000 Libraires et lecteurs de la Fnac, sélection du journal Le Soir de Bruxelles, sélection France Télévision, sélection Côté Femmes… translated into 8 languages)
L'amour Loup, novel, Éd. Pauvert, February 2002, Éd. Livre de Poche, 2004, Paris
Chroniques de l'Algérie amère, Éd. Pauvert, January 2003, Paris
Ce jour viendra, novel, Éd Pauvert, September 2003
Ma planète me monte à la tête, poetry,
Fayard, January 2005
L'année de la putain, shioet stories, Fayard, 2006
Ô Maria, novel, Fayard, 2006
Vivre pour écrire, interviews, Éd. Sedia, February 2007
Le Rapt, novel, Fayard, 2009 (translated into Italian, Il rapimento, Atmosphere libri, 2014)
Tu ne mourras plus demain, narration, Fayard, 2011