Author of numerous novels, including Le Rapt, Ô Maria, Fils du Shéol, and L’Amour au temps des scélérats (winner of the 2022 SGDL Grand Prize for Fiction), translated into about ten languages, the Franco-Algerian novelist Anouar Benmalek was one of the founders of the Algerian Committee Against Torture. A university researcher and professor in Paris, fluent in Russian, he spent five years in the former USSR between Kyiv, Odessa, Moscow, and Leningrad preparing a doctoral thesis in mathematics.
