Noura Bensaad Explained

Noura Bensaad
Native Name:	نورا بن سعد
Native Name Lang:	ar
Birth Place:	Salammbo
Nationality:	Tunisian
Occupation:	Writer • Novelist

Noura Bensaad 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, (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)
• (2009)
• (2004)
• (2002)

References

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