Kaouther Adimi

Kaouther Adimi studied at University of Algiers 1. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is creative and professional writing and prose. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Works named in the authority record are Our Wealth. Distinctions recorded are Prix du jeune écrivain de langue française, Prix littéraire de la vocation, Prix Renaudot des lycéens and resident at the Villa Medici.

Kaouther Adimi was born in Algiers, Algeria, in 1986. From the age of four to the age of eight, she lived with her family in Grenoble, France. During this period, she discovered the pleasure of reading, by going to the public library every week with her dad. In 1994, she returned to Algeria, which was then under the influence of terrorism. Having very few opportunities to read, she started to write her own stories. While she was studying in the Algiers University, she entered a writing contest organized by the French Institute, for the young writers in Muret (Haute-Garonne). The short story she submitted held the attention of the jury who published it in a collection alongside the other laureates' productions. Thanks to this contest, she was invited to Muret, then Toulouse, and finally Paris, where she met with les éditions Barzakh. She has a degree in modern literature and human resources management. In 2009, she wrote her first novel L'envers des autres. The same year, she left Algiers for Paris.

• Le Chuchotement des anges, her first short story, published in the collection of short stories Ne rien faire et autres nouvelles, editions Buchet/Chastel, march 2007 • L'Envers des autres Arles, France]: Actes sud, 2011., • Des pierres dans ma poche, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, DL 2016., • Le Sixième Œuf, nouvelle sombre, in Alger, la nuit, éditions Barzakh, 2011 • Nos richesses, éditions du Seuil, 2017., Translated by Chris Andrews as Our Riches (New Directions, 2020). • Les petits de Décembre, éditions du Seuil, 2019. • Au vent mauvais, roman, éditions du Seuil, 2022.