Yasmina Khadra
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Yasmina Khadra (Arabic:ياسمينة خضراء) is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul (born January 10, 1955).
Moulessehoul, an officer in the Algerian army, adopted a woman's pseudonym to avoid military censorship. Despite the publication of many successful novels in Algeria, Moulessehoul only revealed his true identity in 2001 after leaving the army and going into exile and seclusion in France. Anonymity was the only way for him to survive and avoid censorship during the Algerian Civil War. In 2004, Newsweek acclaimed him as "one of the rare writers capable of giving a meaning to the violence in Algeria today."
His novel set in Afghanistan under the Taliban The Swallows of Kabul was shortlisted for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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- Houria (1984)
- La fille du pont (1985)
- El Kahira (1986)
- De l'autre côté de la ville (1988)
- Le privilège du phénix (1989)
- Le dingue au bistouri (1990)
- La Foire des Enfoirés (1993)
- Les agneaux du seigneur (1998)
- Morituri (1997)
- Double blanc (1998) (translated into English as Double blank)
- L'automne des chimères (1998) (Autumn of the Phantoms)
- À qui rêvent les loups (1999) (Wolf Dreams)
- L'écrivain (2001)
- L'imposture des mots (2002)
- Les hirondelles de kaboul (2002) (The Swallows of Kabul)
- Cousine K (2003)
- La part du mort (2004)
- L'attentat (2005)
- Les sirènes de Bagdad (2006)
- In the Name of God
- The Attack (2006)
