Keynote Speaker: Kamel Daoud

Keynote speaker: Kamel Daoud
Kamel Daoud was born on 17 June 1970 in Mesra, Algeria. A journalist with Le Quotidien d'Oran (Algeria's third-largest French-language national daily), he was its editor-in-chief from 1994 to 2015. Since 2014, he has written a weekly column for Le Point.
His first novel, Meursault, contre-enquête, translated into more than thirty-five languages, was a huge international success, winning the Goncourt prize for first novel in 2015. He won the Lagardère prize for best journalist of the year in 2016, and was awarded the 2017 Livre et Droits de l'Homme prize for Mes indépendances, a collection of almost two hundred texts published between 2010 and 2016. His novel Zabor ou Les Psaumes, published in 2017, won the Transfuge prize for best French-language novel and the Prix Méditerranée. He was awarded the Grande Médaille de la Francophonie by the Académie Française in 2018. In 2019, Kamel Daoud will be the first holder of the new Sciences Po writers' chair on creative writing. He was awarded the Prix international de la Laïcité 2020.
He won the Prix Goncourt 2024 for his book Houris.
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