Mouloud Mammeri (in Amazigh: Mulud At Mɛemmeṛ), born December 28, 1917 in Taourirt Mimoun, Kabylie (Algeria) and died February 26, 1989 in a car accident in Aïn Defla in Algeria, is a writer, anthropologist, linguist specializing in Berber (Amazigh) language and culture. His most famous works are The Forgotten Hill (1952), The Sleep of the Just (1955) and L'Opium et le Bâton (1965).