"This Goncourt prize is meaningful for all writers and all those who want to write on the other side of the walls in our democracies," says the Franco-Algerian writer, Kamel Daoud, winner of the 2024 Goncourt prize for “Houris”, a work of fiction about the massacres of the “black decade” in Algeria between 1992 and 2002, which is banned in his country. SOUNDBITES