Khadra pledges for becoming acquainted with the view of the others.

L'Attentat won the Prix des libraires in 2006, a prize chosen by about five thousand bookstores in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Canada. His novel The Swallows of Kabul, set in Afghanistan under the Taliban, was shortlisted for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In 2004, Newsweek acclaimed him as 'one of the rare writers capable of giving a meaning to the violence in Algeria today.' Anonymity was the only way for him to survive and avoid censorship during the Algerian Civil War. Despite the publication of many successful novels in Algeria, Moulessehoul only revealed his true identity in 2001 after leaving the army and going into exile and seclusion in France. Moulessehoul, an officer in the Algerian army, adopted a woman's pseudonym to avoid military censorship. In 2004, Newsweek acclaimed him as 'one of the rare writers capable of giving a meaning to the violence in Algeria today.' His novel The Swallows of Kabul, set in Afghanistan under the Taliban, was shortlisted for the 2006 International Yasmina Khadra (Arabic: ياسمينة خضراء‎, literally 'green jasmine') is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul. Yasmina Khadra (Arabic: ياسمينة خضراء‎, literally 'green jasmine') is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul.

Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra