Samir Qasimi (Arabic: سمير قسيمي; born 1974) is a critically acclaimed

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

n writer. He has published four novels: * ''The Loss of a Permit'' (2009) * ''A Great Day to Die'' (2009) * ''Infertile Woman in Love'' (2012) * ''The Stairs of Trolar'' (2019) He has been long-listed twice for the

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, first for ''A Great Day to Die'' in 2010 and secondly for ''The Stairs of Trolar'' in 2020.

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