Anouar Benmalek (born January 16, 1956) is an Algerian novelist, journalist, mathematician and poet. After the 1988

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in Algeria in protest of government policies, he became one of the founders of the Algerian Committee Against Torture. His novel ''Lovers of Algeria'' was awarded the Prix Ragid. The novel, ''The Child of an Ancient People'', won the

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. Benmalek's work has been described as "elegiac, multilayered meditation on Algeria's violent history." He has been compared to

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and

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.Suzanne Ruta.
Morocco Bound: Having fled Algeria, Anouar Benmalek reflects on its bloody past
" ''Bookforum'' Feb/Mar. 2007. He was born in Casablanca to an Algerian father and a Moroccan mother.

Works

* ''Cortèges d'impatiences'', poetry, Éd. Naaman, 1984, Québec * ''La Barbarie'', essay, Éd. Enal, 1986, Algiers * ''Rakesh, Vishnou et les autres nouvelles'', Éd. Enal, 1985, Algiers * ''Ludmila'', novel, Éd. Enal, 1986, Algiers * ''Les amants désunis'', novel, Éd.

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, August 2000, Paris ; Ed. Livre de Poche, 2002 ; Prix des auditeurs de la RTBF (Radio Télévision Belge) 2001,

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,

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, 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 * ''Fils du Sheol'', novel, Calmann-Levy, 2015 List from the French Wikipedia article on Anouar Benmalek.

Collective works

* ''Une journée d'été'', Éd. Librio, 2000 * ''Étrange mon étranger'', Seloncourt, 2001 * ''Ma langue est mon territoire'', Éd. Eden, 2001 * ''Nouvelles d'aujourd'hui'', Éd. Écoute, Spotlight Verlag, 2001 * ''Contre offensive'', Éd. Pauvert, 2002 * ''Lettres de ruptures'', Éd. Pocket, 2002 * ''Des nouvelles d'Algérie'', Éd. Métailié, 2005 * ''Le Tour du Mont en 80 pages'', Les Lettres européennes, 2005 * ''Nouvelles d'Algérie'', Éd. Magellan, 2009 * ''Les Enfants de la balle'', Éd. Lattès, 2010 * '' Algérie 50'', Éd. Magellan, 2012

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Benmalek, Anouar Algerian novelists Algerian mathematicians Algerian people of Moroccan descent People from Casablanca 1956 births Living people 21st-century Algerian people