Anouar Benmalek
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- Benmalek, Anouar
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- Male
- Date of birth
- 1956-01-16
- Place of birth
- Casablanca
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Anouar Benmalek (born January 16, 1956) is an Algerian novelist, journalist, mathematician and poet. After the 1988 riots 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 Prix RFO du livre.
Benmalek's work has been described as "elegiac, multilayered meditation on Algeria's violent history." He has been compared to Camus and Faulkner.
He was born in Casablanca to an Algerian father and a Moroccan mother.
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- 2024-04-28