"Muslim". Zahia Rahmani

Zahia Rahmani was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and as a member of the College of the Diversity. She was awarded Special Mention Prize by the Prix Wepler-Fondation La Poste for  Muslim: A Novel ; the prize is given annually to a book that displays an «audacity, an excess, a singularity that escapes commercial purviews.» She is considered one of France’s leading art historians and writers, and is currently a visiting professor at NYU’s Gallatin Faculty. Muslim: A Novel is the second in a trilogy of novels. The third book, France, Story of a Childhood was published in 2016 by Yale University Press.