Nadia Tueni

Nadia Tuéni
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	Lebanese
Genres	Poetry

Nadia Tueni (1935-1983) (spelled in French Tuéni) was a Lebanese, Francophone poet and author of numerous volumes of poetry.^[1]

Nadia Tueni was born in Baakline, Lebanon in 1935.^[2] Born to a Lebanese Druze father, Mohamed Ali Hamade, who was a diplomat and writer, and a French Algerian mother, Tueni grew up bilingual.^[3][4]

Tueni was the wife of Ghassan Tueni, the publisher of Annahar and doyen of the Lebanese press.^[5] Her son was journalist and politician, Gebran Tueni who was assassinated in 2005. Her son, Makram, was 21 when he died in a car accident in Paris in 1987.^[6] Her brother, Marwan Hamadeh, is also a politician, and her brother, Ali Hamadeh, is a journalist at the Annahar and Future TV.

Tueni died in Beirut in 1983 after battling cancer for several years.^[7]

Education

Tueni was educated in French schools in Lebanon and Greece. She attended Ecole des Soeurs de Besançon, then La Mission Laïque Française. She received her secondary education at the Lycée Français in Athens, Greece where her father was ambassador of Lebanon.^[8] She received her law degree at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut.^[9]

Awards

Tueni received several awards during her lifetime, including the Prix de l'Académie Française, the Order of La Pléiade, and the Prix Said Akl.^{[10] [11]}

Publications

• Les Texts Blonds
• Dreamers of the Earth
• Poems of Love and War
• La Terre Arretee
• Archives Sentimentales D'une Guerre Au Liban
• Jenseits des Blickes

References

1. ^ http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2005-catalog/lebanon-poems.html
2. ^ http://www.jehat.com/Jehaat/en/Poets/Nadia-Tueni.htm
3. ^ http://lapoesiequejaime.net/ntueni.htm
4. ^ http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0016/001624/162430E.pdf
5. ^ http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0016/001624/162430E.pdf
6. ^ http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0016/001624/162430E.pdf
7. ^ http://lapoesiequejaime.net/ntueni.htm
8. ^ http://www.jehat.com/Jehaat/en/Poets/Nadia-Tueni.htm
9. ^ http://www.jehat.com/Jehaat/en/Poets/Nadia-Tueni.htm
10. ^ http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2005-catalog/lebanon-poems.html
11. ^ http://lapoesiequejaime.net/ntueni.htm

Persondata
Name	Tueni, Nadia
Alternative names
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Date of birth	1935
Place of birth	Baakline, Lebanon
Date of death	1983
Place of death	Beirut, Lebanon