by Yasmina Khadra · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420644738
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«El escritor» is the novel by Yasmina Khadra, published by Alianza Editorial in 2001, in paperback (264 pages, in Spanish).
With autobiographical traits, Khadra recreates his time at an Algerian military school and his vocation as a poet against a hostile environment. Taking refuge in authors such as Dostoyevsky, Camus or Steinbeck, he turns reading into writing, in a portrait of the Algeria of his time and a hymn to books as freedom.
Translation by Santiago Martín Bermúdez; original French: «L'Écrivain». Part of the Alianza Literaria collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Algerian society and the figure of Yasmina Khadra.
Mohammed Moulessehoul, better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra, 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.
