The French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud is this year's recipient of the Prix Goncourt, France's premier literary prize.
The jury needed only one round of voting to decide that Daoud will receive the prize for the novel "Houris", which takes place during the Algerian civil war in the 1990s.
Kamel Daoud was born in 1970 and made his debut in 2013 with "The Meursault Case", a kind of dialogue with Albert Camus' "The Stranger". This was also awarded the Goncourt Prize in the category of best debut novel.
Daoud's "Zabor or the Psalms" has also been published in Swedish.
The Goncourt Prize is awarded each year to an outstanding prose work. The symbolic prize amount is ten euros, but the winning book is also indirectly rewarded with strong sales figures.
