Suzanne el Kenz, an Algerian-French Palestinian writer, has just published "De glace et de feu" (Ice and Fire) with Editions Barzakh. The novel tells the story of a sick woman hospitalised in France who imagines escaping her pain by taking a trip to the glaciers. A woman of the Mediterranean, she also wants to escape her roots.
Suzanne El Farrah El Kenz lives in Nantes, where she teaches Arabic at a secondary school. Born in 1958 in Gaza, ten years after the Nakba, she has lived in several countries: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Tunisia and France. She was awarded the Grand Prix Yambo-Ouologuem in February 2010 for her novel "La Maison du Néguev" (the house of Neguev).