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Nadia Tueni

Died in 1983

Nadia Tueni was born on 8 July 1935, the daughter of the Druze diplomat and writer Mohammed Ali Hamadé and a French mother. Raised between Beirut and Athens, she began law studies at Saint Joseph University, interrupted in 1954 by her marriage to the journalist Ghassan Tueni. Literary editor of the daily Le Jour from 1967, a French-language poet, she received the Archon-Despérouses prize of the Académie française in 1973. She died on 20 June 1983.

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