Latifa Ben Mansour (Arabic: لطيفة بن منصور) (born 1950 in Tlemcen) is an Algerian writer, psychoanalyst, and linguist.
[1] Her work deals with issues such as the role of women in Algerian society, Islamic extremism, storytelling, trauma, and memory.
Having studied Linguistics at the École Normale Supérieure d'Alger, where she obtained her Ph.D. in the subject, Ben Mansour went on to teach it at the University of Paris III and communications at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.
[2] She received the Prix méditerranéen de la nouvelle in 1996 for her short story "Le Cocu Cadi".
While in the hospital listening to her family around her but unable to respond, Meriem recalls the major events in her life leading up to the accident in an effort to remember what happened.