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[Video] The Algerian writer Kamel Daoud in a word, a gesture and a silence

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Portrait of the Algerian writer Kamel Daoud in a word, a gesture and a silence.

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With his first novel "Meursault, counter-investigation", acclaimed in the literary world, he gave a first name to the Arab killed in "The Stranger" by Albert Camus.

Since then, his severe and original gaze on Algeria and our contemporary world has made Kamel Daoud one of the most important French-speaking writers.

Intimate portrait in a word, a gesture and a silence of this journalist, writer and columnist born in 1970 in Mostaganem, 350 kilometers west of Algiers.

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