Nadia Tueni

Nadia Mohammad Ali Hamade (July 8, 1935 – June 20, 1983) was a Lebanese Francophone poet, who authored numerous volumes of poetry.

Early life Nadia Mohammad Ali Hamadeh was born in Beirut in 1935, to a Lebanese Druze father, Mohammed Ali Hamadeh, who was a diplomat and writer, and a French-born Lebanese Druze mother. She grew up as bilingual. in the presence of two cultures. Her brother, Marwan Hamadeh, is a politician, and another brother, Ali Hamadeh, is a journalist at An Nahar and Future TV.

Personal life She married Ghassan Tueni, the publisher of An Nahar and doyen of the Lebanese press, in 1953 in a civil marriage ceremony. Her son, Gebran Tueni, a journalist and politician, was assassinated in 2005. Another son, Makram, was 21 when he died in a car accident in Paris in 1987. A daughter, Nayla, who was born in 1955

Death Nadia Tueni died in Beit Meri near Beirut in 1983 after an 18-year battle with cancer.

Awards She received several awards during her lifetime, including the Prix de l'Académie Française, the Order of La Pléiade, and the Prix Said Akl.

Publications

Les Textes Blonds (Blonde Texts; 1963) L'Âge d'écume (1965) Juin et les Mécréantes (1968) Poèmes pour une histoire (1972) Le Rêveur de Terre (Dreamers of the Earth; 1975) La Terre Arretee (The Earth stopped, (Posthumous); 1984) Liban: vingt poèmes pour un amour (Lebanon: Twenty Poems for One Love dedicated to her daughter Nayla; 1979) Archives Sentimentales D'une Guerre Au Liban (Archives of a sentimental war in Lebanon; 1982) La Terre arrêtée (1984) Une guerre pour les autres (1985) Jenseits des Blickes Poèmes pour une histoire (1972; awarded by Prix de l'Académie Française in 1973)