For 36-year-old writer AbdelKader Benali, success came unexpectedly early, with an acclaimed debut novel published right after his teenage years.
Wedding By The Sea, a story about a boy who returns to his home country in search of his sister's runaway bridegroom, won the Best Literary Debut Prize of 1996 in Holland.
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