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Kamel Daoud is an Algerian journalist based in Oran, where he writes for the Quotidien d'Oran--the third largest French-language Algerian newspaper. He contributes a weekly column to Le Point, is a regular contributor to the op-ed pages of the New York Times, and his articles have appeared in Liberation, Le Monde, Courrier International, and are regularly reprinted around the world. A finalist for the Prix Goncourt, The Meursault Investigation (Other Press) won the Prix Fran ois Mauriac and the Prix des Cinq-Continents de la francophonie. Elisabeth Zerofsky's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, n+1, The New Republic, and Harper's. She is a graduate of Brown University and was a Fulbright fellow in Paris from 2008 to 2009.
Daoud...offers unsparing critiques of political Islam, Arab dictatorships, Western complicity, and social and cultural repression...A stunning, defiant, and impassioned collection. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Incisive, occasionally witty and always irreverent, Daoud's pen spares no one...Daoud's courage in confronting the Algerian state is particularly commendable. --Times Literary Supplement Nothing of Kamel Daoud's exquisite prose is lost in translation in this brilliant English edition of his collected essays. Daoud is our interpreter and critic of the Arab--and by extension, Islamic--world, and no one, from the Islamists to the dictators to every rogue in between, is immune from his pointed jabs. --Hooman Majd, author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ Praise for The Meursault Investigation: Stunning...an intricately layered tale that...nudges us into a contemplation of Algeria's history and current religious politics; colonialism and postcolonialism; and the ways in which language and perspective can radically alter a seemingly simple story and the social and philosophical shadows it casts backward and forward. --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Mesmerizing...an absorbing, independent story and a shrewd critique of a country trapped in history's time warp. --Wall Street Journal Rich and inventive...so convincing and so satisfying that we no longer think of the original story as the truth, but rather come to question it. --New York Times Book Review Remarkable...[The Meursault Investigation's] themes of voicelessness and vengeance feel utterly present-day. --Vogue A tour-de-force. --The New Yorker What makes Daoud's book so good is that, steeped in independent thinking, it offers an illuminating, if controversial portrait of today's Algeria. --Fresh Air, NPR A biting, profound response to French colonialism...Daoud's prose is propulsive and charged. The pages glitter with memorable phrases. --The Economist
