Nadia Tueni (spelled in French Tuéni) was a Lebanese, Francophone

Francophone

The adjective francophone means French-speaking, typically as primary language, whether referring to individuals, groups, or places. Often, the word is used as a noun to describe a natively French-speaking person....

 poet and author of numerous volumes of poetry.

Nadia Tueni was born in Baakline, Lebanon

Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

 in 1935. Born to a Lebanese Druze father, Mohamed
Ali Hamade, who was a diplomat and writer, and a French Algerian mother, Tueni grew up bilingual.

Tueni was the wife of Ghassan Tueni

Ghassan Tueni

Ghassan Tueni is a former Lebanese Ambassador to the United Nations and publisher of An-Nahar, the leading Lebanese newspaper.- Biography :...

, the publisher of Annahar and doyen of the Lebanese press. Her son was journalist and politician, Gebran Tueni

Gebran Tueni

Gebran Ghassan Tueni was a Lebanese politician and the former editor and publisher of the mass circulation An-Nahar daily newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon....

 who was assassinated in 2005. Her son, Makram, was 21 when he died in a car accident in Paris in
1987. 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.

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

Ambassador

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 of Lebanon. She received her law degree at the Université Saint-Joseph

Université Saint-Joseph

Saint Joseph University is a private Catholic higher institute of education founded by the Jesuits in 1875 in Beirut, Lebanon, known for its school of medicine and its hospital, Hôtel-Dieu de France. The Lebanese state officially recognizes the university and the diplomas it grants in accord with...

 in Beirut

Beirut

Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...

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Awards

Tueni received several awards during her lifetime, including the Prix de l'Académie Française

Académie française

L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...

, the Order of La Pléiade

Order of La Pléiade

The Order of La Pléiade , sometimes also referred by the anglicised name Order of the Pleiades, is an award of the Francophonie, and is intended to recognize those who have particularly distinguished themselves by serving the ideals of cooperation and friendship of the Francophonie.The award was...

, and the Prix Said Akl

Said Akl

Said Akl is a Lebanese poet, writer, and playwright. He is considered one of the most important modern Lebanese poets. He is also a staunch advocate of Lebanese identity and nationalism and the Lebanese language, designing a Latin-based Lebanese alphabet made up of 37 letters.-Early life:Akl was...

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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