Citation

“Nobody writes like Katia Belkhodja. She uses syntax as if it were not a common, flat set of conventions but something that belongs entirely to her, a kind of clay she uses to shape voices, pulses, incantations. Whole continents manifest from just a few words, North America and North Africa like two facets of a spinning coin. Her writing conjures colours and textures, moods and wounds, heat and cold, truth and magic. Her stories are legends hidden inside tales, like literary matryoshkas. Her worlds and characters sweep, swell, and shape-shift to honour the absolute core of her work: the human heart.”