Mouloud Feraoun

Born in a small Kabyle village, Mouloud Feraoun became a teacher and a writer who put his world into books. With patience and tenderness, he described the daily life of his people — their poverty, their dignity, their humor — in a French that always carried the rhythm of the mountains.

He gave Algerian Berber life a literary voice and remains a beloved figure of 20th-century Algerian literature.

He kept a journal during the war that was published after his death and remains a key document of those years.