French Algerian writer Kamel Daoud wins top French literary prize

French Algerian writer Kamel Daoud wins top French literary prize
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French Algerian writer Kamel Daoud has won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for a novel centered on Algeria'scivil war between the government and Islamists in the 1990s, organizers said. The jury needed just one round of voting to award the coveted prize to Daoud, who is based in Algeria, for his novel "Houris" about what has become known as Algeria's "black decade".

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