Nathalie Azoulai, Kamel Daoud, Erri De Luca, Jérôme Ferrari, Jean-Marie Laclavetine, Nicolas Mathieu, Laurent Mauvignier, Amélie Nothomb, Daniel Pennac and Leïla Slimani: As soon as news broke of the pardon of the writer who had been held in Algeria for one year, numerous authors shared their reactions with Le Monde.

BERLIN: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday urged his Algerian counterpart to pardon the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who was given a five-year jail term…

Fünf Jahre hätte der schwerkranke, einundachtzigjährige Schriftsteller Boualem Sansal in seiner algerischen Heimat im Gefängnis absitzen sollen – aus politischen Gründen. Jetzt…