The Andalucian House
Waciny Laredj
The Andalucian House relays the history of an Algerian house modelled on a villa in Granada through the stories of the people who live there over the centuries. Amongst its many residents are two famous, real-life characters: the first, Dali Mami, a sixteenth-century pirate who fought for the Turks and was responsible, amongst other things, for Miguel de Cervantes's period of captivity in Algeria and the second Emperor Napoleon III, whose wife Eugenie was born in Granada.
Nomination
2011 Longlist
Waciny Laredj
Country of origin Algeria
About the author
Waciny Laredj is an Algerian novelist born in 1954. He is a Professor at the Sorbonne University in Paris and the Central University of Algeria, having settled in Paris in 1994.