Following the social unrest and immolation acts in Southern Algeria in 2011, writer and journalist Mustapha Benfodil wrote this fictional monologue of a village's mortuary employee to reflect on the wounds of the Algerian society.
Mustapha Benfodil (born 1968 in Relizane, Algeria, lives and works in Algiers) is a novelist and a journalist at El Watan. He was awarded the Mohammed-Dib 2020 prize, which rewards a young author writing in Arabic, Amazigh and French.
