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Prix Goncourt: Algeria silent after civil war book wins top French award

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Summary
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71% Informative

Houris tells of Algeria 's blood-soaked 'dark decade' in which up to 200,000 people were killed.

Author Kamel Daoud , 54 , had first -hand experience of the massacres because he was a journalist at the time.

He is strongly critical of what he sees as the official instrumentalisation’ of the 1954-1962 war of independence against France .

VR Score

71

Informative language

68

Neutral language

26

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

37

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likely offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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medium-lived

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