Yasmina Khadra

Yasmina Khadra, Yasmina Arab ياسمينة خضراء Chadra ' (pseudonym for Mohammed Moulessehoul; born January 10, 1955 in Kenadsa, Algeria ) is an Algerian writer who lives in France.

Life

Mohammed Moulessehoul was sent by his father, an army officer, already with nine years in a military school. In his 2001 autobiography, published in France L' écrivain (English: the writer ) that were not previously present on German, he describes the beginning of his passion for writing. In this way he could as an adolescent to maintain a clearance, he greatly missed in the cadet dormitories and the collective drill.

He was a senior officer in the Algerian army and began writing and publishing literary demanding, time-critical detective novels. They appeared first in French under his own name. In order to circumvent the stricter at any given time strict censorship rules, he started from Morituri among the first names of his wife ( Yasmina Khadra: "green jasmine flower " ) to publish. After he had fled in late 2000 with his family into exile in France, he raised the mystery surrounding his identity. Out of respect for the achievements of his wife, who through travel and negotiations with European authorities and publishers put the economic basis for a new beginning in France, he decided to maintain the nom de plume Yasmina Khadra as his public author name (see chimera epilogue ). He now lives in Aix -en- Provence.

He became internationally known with his Algiers trilogy. In the three 1997 and 1998 published detective novels ( Morituri, Double White, Fall of the chimeras ) he describes the view of the incorruptible Commissioner Brahim Llob the of bombings, corruption and economic prospects for broad segments of the population embossed everyday drama of the Algerian presence. Khadra wrote these novels with a view to a European ( French ) readership. Previously, he had the two novels La Foire des Enfoirés and Le dingue au bistouri already published in Algeria with Commissioner Llob. With these Llob novels he had managed to anchor the genre detective novel in the Algerian literature for the first time. All five mentioned novels are aligned with the formal criteria of the French roman noir. Llob can be, according to the author of the epilogue Beate Burtscher Bechtel - free translation with the German phrase hard shell, soft core, which stands for empathy and capable of compromise men's personalities.

The trilogy was followed by the 2004 mystery novel Night on Algiers, in which Llob the plaything of the powerful in post-colonial Algeria. The assassin, a novel about an Islamist terrorist in Tel Aviv, in 2006 received several literary awards. The film adaptation of The Attack was awarded in 2013 at the Frankfurt Book Fair as the best film adaptation in 2013. About this novel says Khadra: For you, the Europeans, it is impossible to understand terrorism. Arabs ... I am ... I know them up close. I met her on the battlefield.

Khadra but can not be taken in by the Western point of view, but aims at a mutual knowledge and understanding. In an interview with SWR he said in 2006: "The West interprets the world as it suits him. It develops certain theories that suit his view of the world, although not always correspond to reality. As a Muslim, I suggest a new perspective on Afghanistan, on the religious fanaticism and the - what I call - Religiopathie. My novel, The Swallows of Kabul ' gives readers in the West a chance to be a problem that he otherwise only superficially circles to understand the core. Since the fanaticism for all is a threat, I contribute to understand the causes and backgrounds. Perhaps one then finds a way to bring him under control. "

Works

  • 2011 L' équation africaine ( Romansh Julliard, Paris 2011, ISBN 2-260-01960-9 ) (The map of the darkness. Ger of Regina Keil - Sagawe Ullsteinhaus, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-550-08000 - 5)
  • 2008 Ce que le jour doit à la nuit ( Romansh Julliard, Paris 2008, ISBN 2-260-01758-4 ) (The guilt of the day to the night,. Ger of Regina Keil - Sagawe Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978 -3-550-08790-5 )
  • 2006 Les Sirénes de Bagdad ( Romansh The Sirens of Baghdad; German by Regina Keil - Sagawe Nagel & Kimche 2008, ISBN 978-3-312-00409-6 ).
  • 2005 L' assassination ( Romansh The assassin, dt of Regina Keil - Sagawe Nagel & Kimche 2006, ISBN 3-312-00380-6, as an audio book. ISBN 3-89940-882-9 )
  • 2004 La part du mort ( Romansh night Algiers, dt by Frauke Rother. Structure 2006, ISBN 3-351-03064-9 )
  • 2003 cousin K. (novel)
  • 2002 Les hirondelles de Kaboul ( Romansh The Swallows of Kabul; German by Regina Keil - Sagawe build 2003, ISBN 3-351-02968-3. )
  • 2002 L' imposture des mots ( essays )
  • 2001 L' écrivain ( autobiography)
  • 1999 À quoi revent les loups ( German, Romansh What dream the wolves, dt of Regina Keil - Sagawe construction 2002;. ISBN 3-351-02968-3; well as an audio book )
  • 1998 Les du Seigneur agneaux ( Romansh The lambs of the Lord, dt of Regina Keil - Sagawe. Structure 2004)
  • The Algiers Trilogy ( The Complete Edition, Union, 2006, ISBN 3-293-20377-9 ) 1997 Morituri ( Morituri, Romansh, German by Regina Keil - Sagawe and Bernd Ziermann Haymon 1999, ISBN 3-293-20209-8, . Well as an audio book )
  • 1997 Double blanc ( white double Romansh, German by Regina Keil - Sagawe. Haymon 2000, ISBN 3-293-20224-1 )
  • 1998 L' automne des chimères ( Romansh fall of the chimeras, dt of Regina Keil - Sagawe. Haymon, 2001, ISBN 3-293-20240-3 )

Awards

  • Attentat 2006 Prix Découverte, Prix Tropiques and Prix of Libraires (French bookseller price) for L'
  • 2005 Prix littéraire Beur FM Méditerranéefür La Part du mort.
  • 2004 Prix du Meilleur Polar Francophone for La Part du mort.
  • 2003 grand prize of alger. literary. Association Åslia ( littéraires de l' Association des Libraires algériens )
  • 2002 German Crime Prize 2nd Place / International for the fall of the chimeras
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