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Elizabeth Urban

Famous Author Accused of Using Psychiatrist Wife's Confidential Patient Files as Basis for Award-Winning Novel

Laureate of the Prix Goncourt literary prize, French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud speaks to the media as he arrives to the Drouant restaurant in Paris, after he was awarded the prize for his novel "Houris" on November 4, 2024. (Credit: Grégoire Campione/AFP via Getty Images)

A famous author has been accused of using the confidential files of his psychiatrist wife's patient as the basis for his novel that won him the highest literacy award in France.

In Kamel Daoud's book "Houris," a woman who loses her voice after her throat is cut by an Islamist during Algeria's civil war between the government and Islamist groups, as reported by The Guardian.

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