Né à Nice de parents algériens, Mourad voudrait se forger un destin. Son pire cauchemar : devenir un vieux garçon obèse aux cheveux poivre et sel, nourri par sa mère à base d'huile de friture. Pour éviter d'en arriver là, il lui faudra se défaire d'un héritage familial pesant. Mais est-ce vraiment dans la rupture qu'on devient pleinement soi-même ? Dès son premier roman (Kiffe kiffe demain, Hachette littératures, 2004), Faïza Guène s'est imposée comme une des voix les plus originales de la littérature française contemporaine.
Author
Faïza Guène is a French writer and director. Born to parents of Algerian origin, she grew up in Pantin, in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris. She attended Collège Jean Jaurès followed by Lycée Marcelin Berthelot in Pantin. She began studies in sociology at Université Paris VIII, in St-Denis, before abandoning them to pursue writing and directing full-time. Her first novel, "Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow" was published in 2004 when Guène was nineteen years old. The novel has sold over 200,000 copies and been translated into twenty-two different languages, and paved the way for her following work, "Some Dream for Fools" (2006) and "Les gens du Balto" (2008). Guène has also written for "Respect" magazine since 2005 and directed several short films, including "Rien que des mots" (2004).
