Amina Saïd

Amina Saïd was born in 1953 in Tunis, to a Tunisian father and a French mother, and grew up between Arabic and French. She studied English language and literature at the Sorbonne, taught English for two years at a Tunisian university, then settled in Paris in the late seventies and worked there as a journalist. A translator into French of the novels of the Filipino writer Francisco Sionil José, she received the Prix Jean-Malrieu in 1989, the Prix Charles-Vildrac in 1994 and the Antonio-Viccaro International Poetry Prize in 2004.

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• PoetryPaysages, nuit friableAmina Saïd · 1980not translated into EnglishLiterature