The concerns about his reported arrest come as another prominent French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud is under attack over his novel Houris, which won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt. A woman has claimed the book was based on her story of surviving 1990s Islamist massacres and used without her consent.

President Macron joins calls for information about Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, missing in Algiers.

The French publisher of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal on Friday called for his immediate release from detention in Algeria, confirming reports he had been detained in his home country. The Gallimard publishing house,

Alarm grew in France on Friday over the fate of a prominent French-Algerian novelist detained in the country of his birth, with his publisher urging his

Alarm grew in France on Friday over the fate of a prominent French-Algerian novelist detained in the country of his birth, with his publisher urging his immediate release and President

French author Boualem Sansal upon his arrival at Algiers International Airport from Paris. At 75 years old, Sansal was detained by the Algerian General Directorate of Internal Security and is expected to face a prosecutor soon.