by Fouad Laroui · Julliard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782260030416
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«L'insoumise de la Porte de Flandre» is the novel by Fouad Laroui, published by Julliard in paperback (131 pages, in French).
Fátima leads a double life in Brussels: every evening she leaves Molenbeek wearing a hijab, crosses the Porte de Flandre and transforms into a striptease dancer in the Alhambra district. Fawzi, an inquisitive neighbour secretly in love with her, decides to follow her. With irony, the novel addresses freedom, identity and prejudice.
«L'insoumise de la Porte de Flandre» was nominated for the Prix de l'Algue d'Or in 2018. The Julliard edition was published on 17 August 2017.
For readers of contemporary francophone fiction seeking a short novel with humour and irony about identity and freedom.
Fouad Laroui is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies at the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he studied engineering. After working shortly for the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga (Morocco), he moved to the United Kingdom where he spent several years in Cambridge and York. Later he obtained a PhD in economics and moved to Amsterdam where he started his career as a writer. He has published about twenty books between novels, collections of short stories and essays and two collections of poetry in Dutch. He has won several literary prizes, amongst which the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, the Prix Jean-Giono and the Grande Médaille de la littérature de l'Académie française.
