Mouloud Mammeri was born on December 28, 1917 in Taourirt Mimoune (Ath Yenni), Kabylia, Algeria. He was a writer, known for L'opium et le baton (1969), Dawn of the Damned (1965) and The Forgotten Hill (1997). He died on February 26, 1989 in Ain Defla, Algeria.