Fethi Achouri is 37, born and educated in Algeria and know almost everything about the turmoil that cast the whole country into its nine-year civil war. This true story emerged unbidden, prompted by the fact that he spent part of his youth in the birthplace of two characters appearing in the novel. A French and English literatures teacher by day  and avid reader/writer at night, he has finally his first novel 'Eternal Trauma'  complete at around 90.000 words.