Lemsine, the pen name of Aïcha Laidi (born 1942), is an Algerian writer writing in French.
[5] Her husband, Ahmed Laïdi, was the Algerian ambassador to Spain (1965–1970), ), Jordan (1977–1984), in Great Britain and Ireland (1984–1988) and Mexico (1988–1991).
[6] Lemsine's first two novels are based on events around the time of the Algerian War of Independence.
This book, published in French, was then the first novel of an Algerian woman, fourteen years after the national independence of Algeria,to expose the contradiction between the reality of the condition of women in her country and the Constitution proclaiming an "egalitarian socialism" where "Fundamental freedoms and human and citizen rights are guaranteed.
The ministry of "habous and Islamic affairs" sent gendarmes to withdraw "the Chrysalis" of the "Éditions des Femmes" stand participating in the first international exhibition.The censorship of her books is still subject to invisibility in Algeria, unlike their distribution in countries in the rest of the world.