Boualem Sansal
Boualem Sansal was born in the year 19949. He is an Algerian author. In the year 2012, Boualem Sansal was named the winner of the Prix Rom...
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Boualem Sansal was born in the year 19949. He is an Algerian author. In
the year 2012, Boualem Sansal was named the winner of the Prix Roman Arabe,
though the money prize of the award was removed because of the Sansal’s visit
to Israel to deliver a speech at the Jerusalem Writers Festival.
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Biography
Boualem Sansal was born in Algiers. He is a trained engineer with a
doctorate degree in economics. Boualem Sansal started writing novels at the age
of 50 after he had retired from his job as a high-rankin official in the
government of the country. It was the assassination of the president of the
country Boudiaf in the year 1992 and the high rise of the Islamic
fundamentalism that gave him the inspiration to write about Algeria. Boualem
Sansal is still living with his wife and two daughters in Algeria not minding
the controversy that was aroused by his book in the country. At the International Festival of Literature
in Berlin in the year 2007, Boualem Sansal was introduced as a writer who is
exiled in his own country. Boualem Sansal claimed that the country is becoming
a bastion of Islamic extremism and the nation is losing its intelligent and
moral foundations.
Literary Career
Boualem Sansal’s novel called Le village de l'Allemand ou le journal des frères Schiller, is the
story of two Algerian brothers who warren into the past and found out that
there father had been a Nazi officer that came into the country after the war.
The book talked more about the line that is holding the Islamic fundamentalism
and the Nazism. This was the first of his novels to be translated to the
English language and the book was published in the United States as the
GermanMujahid and in the United Kingdom as An Unfinished Business.
Awards and Critical Acclaim
Boualem Sansalwrites in the French language and his works has won the top
literaryu awards in France, among them is the Prix du Premier Roman that he won
in the year 1999. His first novel was called Le serment des Barbares, which is published by Gallimard in the year
1999,has now been made into a movie based on the screenplay that was produced
by Jorge Semprun.
On the 16th October 2011, Boualem Sansal got the Peace Prize of the German
Book Trade.
On the 19th
December 2011, Boualem Sansal was
announced to have been on the jury for the 62nd Berlin International
Film Festival, which was meant to hold in February 2012.
Boualem Sansal was the winner of the 2012 Edition of the Gallimard Arabic
Novel Prize for his book called Rue Darwin. The prize was given to him by the
Arab Ambassadors Council, which were based in Paris. The 15,000 euros money
prize that was given to him was revoked when the council learnt that Boualem
Sansal attended the Jerusalem Writers Festival earlier in that year.
Published work
Novels
Ø 2000:
L'Enfant fou de l'arbre creux,
Gallimard. Prix Michel Dard
Ø 2003:
Dis-moi le paradis, Gallimard
Ø 2005:
Harraga, Gallimard
Ø 2008:
Le village de l'Allemand ou le journal
des frères Schiller, Gallimard - Grand Prix RTL-Lire 2008, le Grand Prix
de la francophonie 2008 -Prix Nessim Habif- (Académie royale de langue et de
littérature françaises de Belgique). translated by Frank Wynne
and published in the US as The German
Mujahid (2009) and in the UK as An
Unfinished Business
Ø 2011:
Rue Darwin, Gallimard
Short stories
Ø 2001:
La voix, Gallimard-Le Monde
Ø 2005:
La vérité est dans nos amours perdues, in "Des nouvelles d'Algérie",
ed Métailié
Ø 2004:
La Femme sans nom. Littera et l’Aube.
Ø 2005:
Homme simple cherche évènement heureux, Le Monde.
Ø 2005:
Tous les bonheurs ne valent pas le déplacement, Magazine des Beaux Arts.
Ø 2006:
La Terrible nouvelle. Le Monde.
Essays
Ø 2006:
Poste restante: Alger, lettre de colère et d'espoir à mes compatriotes,
Gallimard
Ø 2007:
Petit éloge de la mémoire, Gallimard
Technical literature
1986:
La Combustion dans les turboréacteurs, OPU, Alger. 1989: La Mesure de la
productivité, OPU, Alger
