Nadia Tueni Mohammad Ali Hamadeh was born in Beirut in 1935, to a Lebanese Druze father, Mohammed Ali Hamadeh, who was a diplomat and writer, and a Syrian Druze mother.
13 Facts About Nadia Tueni
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Nadia Tueni grew up as bilingual in the presence of two cultures.
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Nadia Tueni's brother, Marwan Hamadeh, is a politician, and another brother, Ali Hamadeh, is a journalist at An Nahar and Future TV.
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Nadia Tueni was educated in French schools in Lebanon and Greece.
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Nadia Tueni attended Ecole des Soeurs de Besancon, then La Mission Laique Francaise.
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Nadia Tueni received her secondary education at the Lycee Francais in Athens where her father was ambassador of Lebanon.
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Nadia Tueni received her law degree at the Universite Saint-Joseph in Beirut.
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Nadia Tueni published her first book of poems, Les Textes Blonds, in 1963.
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Nadia Tueni worked as the literary editor of the Lebanese French-language newspaper, Le Jour, in 1967 and contributed to various Arabic and French publications.
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Nadia Tueni married Ghassan Tueni, the publisher of An Nahar and doyen of the Lebanese press, in 1953 in a civil marriage ceremony.
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Nadia Tueni has a brother, the minister and deputy Marwan Hamade and a step brother, a journalist in An Nahar daily newspaper, Ali Hamade.
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Nadia Tueni died in Beit Meri near Beirut in 1983 after an 18-year battle with cancer.
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Nadia Tueni received several awards during her lifetime, including the Prix de l'Academie Francaise, the Order of La Pleiade, and the Prix Said Akl.