Dalila Kerchouche (Writing)

Dalila Kerchouche (دليلة كرشوش), born in 1973 in Bias, is a French journalist and writer. She was born in 1973 in a harki camp in southwest France, located in the Lot-et-Garonne department. A former journalist at L'Express and Le Figaro Madame, Dalila Kerchouche received the Association of Women Journalists Award at the age of 21 for her first article published in L'Express, entitled "A Veil on Olympism." She is best known for her autobiographical account, My Father, This Harki (Seuil, 2003), which sold 40,000 copies and received widespread press coverage. This work is the basis of the screenplay for the television film Harkis, by Alain Tasma, co-written with the screenwriter and director Arnaud Malherbe, broadcast in prime-time on France 2 in October 2006, attracting more than 6.3 million viewers. This film received the Europa Prize for best fiction screenplay, awarded in Berlin in 2007. She is also the author of the documentary...Read More