Africa: Algerian Writer Wins World French Literature Prize

The Algerian journalist Kamel Daoud was named in Paris on Monday as the winner of a major world prize for French literature, for his novel "Mersault the counter-enquiry".

He will collect the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie (the Five Continents of the French-speaking World Prize) in Dakar on 28 November, during the Francophonie summit.

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