Noura Bensaad
Tunisian writer
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Noura Bensaad (Arabic: نورا بن سعد, romanized: Nūrā ben Saʿd) is a Francophone Tunisian writer who has been called the "Tunisian master of the short story."[1] She was born in Salammbo (a district of Carthage), Tunisia, to a Tunisian father and a French mother.[2] She attended university in Binzerte and graduated with a degree in French literature.
Career
Bensaad is the author of two novels and two short story collections.[3][4] Her "exquisite" short stories are known for their Mediterranean settings and "dreamlike" atmospheres, in which she exhibits her characters' hopes and disappointments.[5]
An excerpt of her novel, Quand ils rêvent les oiseaux (When Birds Dream), was included in the 2010 Banipal issue on Modern Tunisian Literature, translated into English by Lulu Norman.[6][7] Her short story "L’étranger et la vieille dame," translated into English by Roland Glasser, was included in the Words Without Borders issue on literature by Tunisian women.[8]
Works
- (2016) Bir El Abd
- (2009) Quand ils rêvent les oiseaux
- (2004) Mon Cousin Est Revenu
- (2002) L'immeuble de la rue du Caire
