Kamel Daoud, the 2023 Goncourt prize winner, faces a lawsuit in Algeria from Saada Arbane, who claims he based a character in his novel, Houris, on her life experiences without consent. Arbane survived a brutal Islamist attack that killed her family, and alleges the similarities between her story and that of the book’s heroine are too close for comfort. The lawsuit raises issues of medical confidentiality and the sensitive handling of Algeria’s civil war narratives, complicating Daoud’s previously acclaimed literary standing.

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