Kamel Daoud

"Just think, we're talking about one of the most-read books in the world. My brother might have been famous if your author had merely deigned to give him a name… But no, he didn't name him, because if he had, my brother would have caused the murderer a problem with his conscience: You can't easily kill a man when he has a given name."

'The Meursault Investigation' by Kamel Daoud (Other Press, 143 pages, $14.95)

A former psychiatrist, Lydie Salvayre won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for her book "Pas pleurer" ("Don't cry") in which she interweaves the voices of her mother and French writer Georges Bernanos during the Spanish Civil War.