Yasmina Khadra

Yasmina Khadra
Yasmina Khadra
	Khadra in 2014
Native name	Mohammed Moulessehoul
Born	10 January 1955 (age 69); Kénadsa, Béchar Province, Algeria
Pen name	Yasmina Khadra
Occupation	Novelist
Language	French
Notable works	Algerian trilogy; The Swallows of Kabul; The Attack; What the Day Owes the Night;
Notable awards	Henri Gal Literature Grand Prize – 2011; Order of Arts and Letters, Officer;
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Mohammed Moulessehoul (Arabic: محمد مولسهول; born 10 January 1955), better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra (Arabic: ياسمينة خضراء), is an Algerian author living in France, who writes in French. One of the most famous Algerian novelists in the world, he has written almost 40 novels, and has published in more than 50 countries. Khadra has often explored Algerian and other Arab countries' civil wars, depicting Muslim conflicts and reality, the attraction of radical Islamism to those alienated by the incompetence and hypocrisy of politicians, and conflicts between East and West. In his several writings on the Algerian war, he has exposed the regime and the fundamentalist opposition as the joint guilty parties in the country's tragedy.