Nina Bouraoui is a French novelist. Born to an Algerian father and a French mother, in Rennes, France, 1967, she spent most of her youth in Algeria, then moved to France. Her first novel, La Voyeuse interdite (Gallimard, 1991), won the Prix du Livre Inter, and her novel Mes mauvaises Pensées (Stock), the prestigious Prix Renaudot in 2005.