Algerian writer Ahlam Mostaghanemi was born in 1953 and is the daughter of Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Cherif. She is the first Algerian female writer whose works have been translated into English. These translations include Memory in the Flesh and Chaos of the Senses, two parts of a trilogy.

Her writings mainly portray the Algerian struggle for postcolonial development and security. Her prose is known for its sweeping and inspiring depiction of the Algerian plight while still preserving the characteristics of old Algeria. Her novel 'Memory in the Flesh' was published simultaneously in Algeria and Lebanon in 1993 but became widely popular across the Arab world in 1998 when it won the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for literature selling 50,000 copies. Mostaghanemi currently resides in Beirut in Lebanon.
 
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