Military career, first novels, and Algerian trilogy Īt age 23, Khadra graduated from the Cherchell Military Academy (AMC), and joined the armed forces as a second lieutenant. While at military school, at age 18, he has finished his first volume of short stories, which was to appear eleven years later as Houria (1984). At first, he wanted to be a poet in Arabic language, but met professor of French origin. Khadra describes the beginning of his passion for writing in his autobiography entitled The Writer, in this way he was able to keep privacy that he missed in the cadet dormitories. Parents sent their three sons, Mohammed aged nine and later his two younger brothers, to the cadet school of Revolution in El Mechouar Palace, Tlemcen. His father, initially a nurse, joined the Algerian National Liberation army, as Algeria began to fight for independence from France. His mother, of nomadic origins, was her tribe's 'chief storyteller'. Moulessehoul was born in 1955 in Kénadsa, in the Algerian Sahara. In his several writings on Algerian war, he has exposed the regime and the fundamentalist opposition as the joint guilty parties in the country's tragedy.īiography Early life, and short stories 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. One of the most famous Algerian novelists in the world, he has written almost 40 novels, and has published in more than 50 countries. Mohammed Moulessehoul ( Arabic: محمد مولسهول born January 10, 1955), better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra ( Arabic: ياسمينة خضراء), is an Algerian author living in France, who writes in French. Henri Gal Literature Grand Prize – 2011.

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