On 22 May 2015 Kamel Daoud, winner of the Goncourt List - Romanian Students’ Choice for 2014, was present in the capital city for a meeting with students from the University of Bucharest. In the evening he found time for a meeting with his fans, and then he went to the Lebanon and Algeria stand at Bookfest.

One of the events held at the Dacia stand within the 2014 Gaudeamus - Books for Education book fair was the presentation of Goncourt List - Romanian Students’ Choice, an event organised by the French Institute. The winning volume was "Meursault, contre-enquete" by Kamel Daoud.

Kamel Daoud was born in 1970, in Mostaganem, Algeria. He is a journalist at the Oran daily newspaper, the third largest national French language publication in Algeria, where he was editor-in-chief for a long time. For the last twelve years he has written the most read column in Algeria, and his articles are often taken over by the French press.

Daoud is the author of several stories, some of which were brought together in the volume “Le Minotaure 504”, initially published in Alger under the title “La Préface du nègre” (“The Preface of the Black”), in 2008, which was awarded the Mohammed Dib prize for the best short story volume the same year. Translated in German and Italian, appreciated by French critics, “Le Minotaure 504” was shortlisted for the Wepler and Goncourt prizes for short stories in 2011. “Meursault, the Counter-Inquiry”, published in Algeria and France, is his first novel.