-Algerian columnist and novelist Kamel Daoud received Sunday the "Liste Goncourt- le choix de l'Orient" prize for his novel "Meursaut, contre enquête", presented at the 21st Francophone Book Fair in Beirut, local press announced.
The jury chose to distinguish the novel of Kamel Daoud for "the singularity of the subject that presented Mursault, main character of "The Foreigners" by Albert Camus to conduct an inquiry to rehabilitate the victim."
As for this novel, Kamel Daoud is also a finalist for the prestigious French literary prize, le Prix Goucourt, which will be awarded on November 5th.
Published in 2013 in Algeria by Barzakh edition, "Meursaut, contre enquête" has already earned its author, "Francois Mauriac" from the "French Academy Prize" and "The Five Continents Prize" awarded by the The International Organisation of La Francophonie.