Katia Belkhodja (born 1986) is an Algerian Canadian writer from Quebec,Laila Maalouf, "Une histoire de survivance et de transmission". La Presse, January 25, 2025. whose novel Les déterées was the winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2025 Governor General's Awards.Laila Maalouf, "Katia Belkhodja l’emporte dans la catégorie Romans et nouvelles". La Presse, November 6, 2025.
Born in Algeria, she emigrated to Canada with her family in childhood."« Écrire sur soi, c'est casse-gueule »". Ici Radio-Canada, January 31, 2017. She published her debut novel, Le peau des doigts, in 2008, and followed up with La marchande de sable in 2015. In 2023 she was selected for the Writers' Trust of Canada's Rising Stars program for emerging writers, with a mentorship from writer Catherine Leroux.Inderjit Deogun, "Writers’ Trust announces 2023 Rising Stars". Quill & Quire, April 12, 2023.
She also teaches French literature at the CÉGEP level.
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