Evelyne Accad

Evelyne Accad (born October 6, 1943) is a Lebanese-born educator and writer living in the United States, France and Lebanon.

Life Accad is the daughter of a Swiss mother (Suzanne Steudler) and a father of Lebanese and Egyptian descent (Fouad Accad). She was born in Beirut in 1943 and grew up in Lebanon This novel deals with excision of women in both the physical and metaphorical sense.

Although she has her own unique style, Accad was strongly influenced by the Egyptian-born French writer Andrée Chedid and the Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi.

Selected works

Fiction Coquelicot du massacre (1988) Blessures des Mots: Journal de Tunisie (1993) ; English version Wounding Words: A Woman's Journal in Tunisia (1996) Sexuality and War: Literary Masks of the Middle East (1990) ; review Des femmes, des hommes et la guerre: Fiction et Realite au Proche-Orient (1993) ; received the France-Lebanon Literary Award Voyages en cancer (2000); received the Prix Phenix de Literature; English version The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journeys Through Cancer (2001)