Nadia Mohammad Hamadeh Tueni was born in 1935 and was a Lebanese Francophone poet who published numerous volumes of poetry in French. She received several prominent awards for her work including the Order of La Pléiade and the Prix Said Akl. Nadia Mohammad Ali Hamadeh was born in Beirut in 1935 to a Lebanese father, Mohammed Ali Hamadeh, who was a diplomat and writer, and a French Algerian mother. Tueni published her first book of poems, Les Texts Blonds, in 1963.She worked as the literary editor of the Lebanese French-language newspaper in 1967 and contributed to various Arabic and French publications. She married Ghassan Tueni, the publisher of Annahar newspaper, in 1954; they had 3 children, Makram, Gebran and Nayla. She died of cancer in 1983.

Concours Nadia Tuéni