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Boualem Sansal

Boualem Sansal was born on 15 October 1949 in Theniet El Had, in the Ouarsenis. An engineer from the École nationale polytechnique in Algiers and a doctor of economics, he was a teacher, a company manager and then a senior official at the Ministry of Industry, and came to writing only at around fifty. Winner of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2011 and of the Académie française's grand prize for the novel in 2015 for 2084, he was imprisoned in Algeria from November 2024 to November 2025, before being pardoned.

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