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| Sunday, April 29, 2007 1:05PM | | | | Four Visions of Yasmina Khadra | Tags: New World Voices, The Believer, Salman Rushdie, Dave Eggers, Yasmina Khadra, Colin Harrison, Niccolo Amminiti, Heidi Julavits, Uzodinma Iweala, Isobel Hoving, Miranda July, Eric Bogosian
| | | | Friday night onstage in the exquisite wood-paneled auditorium at The Morgan Library, New York Noir novelist and Scribner editor Colin Harrison asks a question of Mohammad Moulessehoul, the expatriate Algerian soldier who under the pseudonym Yasmina Khadra is a best-selling author in France, honored with the 2001 Medaille d'Or de l'Academie Francaise and the 2006 Prix des Libraires.
Harrison, filling in as PEN World Voices Festival "Mediterranean Noir" moderator for Alice Sebold, who broke her leg, has neatly set up the evening but quoting Jean-Claude Izzo, who in his essay, "The Blue and the Black," writes that the Mediterranean gave the world the first noir books (Cain and Abel in the Bible, the Greek tragedies) as well as Camus's "The Stranger," which Izzo calls the... | | | | | |
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