Noura Bensaad

Noura Bensaad
نورا بن سعد
Born	Bizerte, Tunisia
Nationality	Tunisian
Occupation	Writer • 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."[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

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.