Yasmina Khadra

Mohammed Moulessehoul, who writes as Yasmina Khadra, from his wife's first names, was born on 10 January 1955 in Kenadsa, in the Béchar region. Having entered the cadet school of Tlemcen at nine and trained as an officer at the Cherchell academy, he served some twenty-five years in the Algerian army, rising to the rank of major, and left it in 2000. He revealed his identity in 2001 in L'Écrivain, settled in France, later headed the Algerian Cultural Centre in Paris and received the Académie française's Henri-Gal grand prize in 2011.

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• NovelMorituriYasmina Khadra · 1997Literature