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Katia Belkhodja

Born 1986 · Algeria, Canada

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    Governor General's (French) 2025 · Winner

    Les déterrées

    Title translated by AI:“The Unearthed Women”

    Katia Belkhodja · 39 when first published

    Novel · 399 pages · Family, Migration, Historical

    AI-generated summary:Rym spends her early childhood with her cousins in Algeria; exiled to Quebec after the civil war, they grow up in the shadow of four generations marked by colonization, resistance and uprooting.