Noura Bensaad

Noura Bensaad
نورا بن سعد
Born
Bizerte, Tunisia
NationalityTunisian
OccupationWriter • Novelist

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." She was born in Salammbo (a district of Carthage), Tunisia, to a Tunisian father and a French mother. 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. Her "exquisite" short stories are known for their Mediterranean settings and "dreamlike" atmospheres, in which she exhibits her characters' hopes and disappointments.

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. 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.

Works

  • (2016) Bir El Abd
  • (2009) Quand ils rêvent les oiseaux
  • (2004) Mon Cousin Est Revenu
  • (2002) L'immeuble de la rue du Caire

References

  1. ^ Bensaad, Noura. "The Stranger and the Old Lady". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  2. ^ "Noura Bensaad". Babelio (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  3. ^ "Contributors". Banipal.
  4. ^ "Noura Bensaad - Biographie, publications (livres, articles)". www.editions-harmattan.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-05-05.
  5. ^ Oumhani, Cécile (December 2017). "We Take the Present in Our Own Hands: Writing by Tunisian Women". Words Without Borders.
  6. ^ "بانيبال: ملف الأدب التونسي المعاصر" [Banipal: About modern Tunisian literature]. الشرق الأوسط al-Sharq al-Awsat. 2010-10-31. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  7. ^ Bensaad, Noura (Autumn–Winter 2010). "When Birds Dream [excerpt]". Banipal. 39. Lulu Norman [trans.]: 82–86.
  8. ^ "Under a Different Light: Writing by Tunisian Women". Words Without Borders. December 2007.


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