Salem Zenia (Algeria/Spain), born in 1962 in Fréha, Tizi-Ouzou, is an Amazigh writer, poet, and novelist. He studied in Fréha, later attending Azazga High School before pursuing journalism at the Université Libre de Liège, Belgium. He has worked as a journalist for several publications and has been actively involved in Amazigh cultural and political movements. In 1998, he founded Racines/Izuran, a French/Tamazight bilingual biweekly newspaper dedicated to the promotion of Berber culture and literature, earning him an honorary diploma from the Tamazgha Association in Paris. Zenia has published the poetry collections Les Rêves de Yidir / Tirga n Yidir (The Dreams of Yidir, 1993) and Printemps / Tifeswin (Spring, 2004), both in French-Tamazight bilingual editions, as well as the novels Tafrara (Dawn, 1995) and Iɣil d Wefru (Power and Sword, 2003). All of his works were published in Paris by L’Harmattan.