About Anouar Benmalek
Born 1956. Anouar Benmalek is a French and Algerian journalist, mathematician, poet, university teacher and writer.
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.
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. Calmann-Lévy, 1998, Paris; Éd. Livre de Poche, 2000; Prix Mimouni 1999 (translated into 10 languages, sélections Fémina et Médicis). L'enfant du peuple ancien, novel, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, August 2000, Paris; Ed. Livre de Poche, 2002; Prix des auditeurs de la RTBF (Radio Télévision Belge) 2001, Prix RFO du livre 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, Fayard, 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
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
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Who is Anouar Benmalek?
French journalist and mathematician
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Anouar Benmalek was born on 16 January 1956 in Casablanca.
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Anouar Benmalek is a journalist, mathematician, poet, university teacher and writer.
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Anouar Benmalek is French and Algerian.
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