Makhlouf BOUAICH was born in 1955 in Akabiou, a mountain village in Algeria. After elementary school, he attended the Ibn Sina high school in Bejaia, which he felt was his first uprooting. However, it was in this very city that he was lucky enough to have books to read. Since the high school library was free, he devoured one book after another. Very early on, inspired by the texts of Mouloud Feraoun and Victor Hugo, he felt the pressing need to write in order to resemble them. However, it was poetry that attracted him and into which he would throw himself. A worshipper of Victor Hugo, Makhlouf nevertheless wrote poems more inspired by Baudelaire. His writings ended up in the trash, but he did not become discouraged; he began again daily and tried his hand at novels. It was only during his military service that he finished his first work, on the theme of an impossible love between the son of an Algerian worker and a native French woman. This novel never saw the light of day; it remained at the manuscript stage (written in pen on loose sheets of paper). His first attempt to get published, in 1980 in Algeria, ended in failure. The president of the SNED reading committee received him, but did not share the ideas contained in the texts. He nevertheless suggested publishing it in a collective collection (2 to 5 poems). Makhlouf BOUAICH declined, as he did not want to find himself in the same collection as others whose opinions he did not share. In 1996, Makhlouf BOUAICH left Algeria for good to settle in France, after having first stayed in Libya, where he finished two novels, one of which was published in Paris under the title "Mémoires remuées". He worked in various professions, including electrician, in Libya, where the French language is almost non-existent, but also in France where any level of education acquired elsewhere is very rarely recognized. Makhlouf BOUAICH is a human rights activist. For more than three years, he held the position of secretary general of the LDH section of Melun and its surroundings. Committed to the defense of women's causes, he worked for five years within an association that supports women victims of domestic violence: accommodation, social, legal, administrative support... In all these experiences, Makhlouf BOUAICH found a fertile ground for writing that allows him to externalize what constantly weighs on his inner self.