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Patient sues Algerian author over claims he used her in prize novel

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Kamel Daoud was awarded the Goncourt prize earlier this month for his novel Houris .

It is a searing account of Algeria 's 1990s civil war in which up to 200,000 people were killed.

But a woman who survived one of the massacres has appeared on Algerian television.

Saada Arbane had her throat cut in an Islamist militant attack that wiped out most of her family, and now communicates through a speaking tube.

Ms Arbane said that from 2015 she had several psychiatric sessions with Daoud ’s future wife, Aicha Dahdouh , and accused the couple of using her story without her consent.

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70

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informal

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English

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47

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short-lived

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