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In "Huris" (Gallimard, 2024), Kamel Daoud gives voice to a victim of the Algerian civil war (1991-2002): Aube. As a child, she was stabbed in the throat and lost her voice. Now 26 years old, she owns a salon de beauté opposite a mosque and is the target of hostility from the imam. She can only tell her story to her unborn child, whom she is carrying in her womb. In order to decide out whether or not she should give birth to her child, she sets off on a journey back to the site of the massacre. 

The Algerian-French author Kamel Daoud worked as a journalist for a long time. After he was threatened for his critical articles in Algeria in 2014, he went into exile in France and devoted himself to literature. He won the Prix Goncourt 2024 for "Huris".

Talk in French, with German translation – in the framework of the festival Culturescapes Sahara 2025.