🎤 Boualem Sansal

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Boualem Sansal is an Algerian novelist writing in French, born in 1949. He gained international recognition with Le village de l'Allemand (2008), a novel linking the Holocaust with Algerian history. His dystopian novel 2084: La fin du monde (2015) won the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. He is known for his outspoken criticism of Islamist extremism and authoritarianism.