NOHAD SALAMEH, born in 1947 in Baalbek, Lebanon, is a French writer and poet of Lebanese origin. After a journalistic career in the French-language press in Beirut, she settled in Paris in 1989. She is the daughter of the poet Youssef Fadl Allah Salameh and the wife of the writer and poet Marc Alyn. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Romanian, and Serbian.

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Literary Awards

Louise-Labé Prize – L’Autre Ecriture (1988)

Louis-Montalte Grand Prize for Autumn Poetry from SGDL (2007) for his entire body of work

Paul Verlaine Prize from the French Academy – D’Autres annonciations (2013)

Léopold Sédar Senghor European Poetry Prize (2020)

In 2014, a Nohad Salameh Fund was established in Lebanon, at the Phoenix Heritage Center of the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik.

In 2021, Nohad Salameh donated a collection of archives, manuscripts, and artists' books to the Carnegie Library in Reims.

 

Honorary distinction

Officer in the Order of Academic Palms (2002)

Member of the Louise Labé Prize jury since 1990.

 

Publications : Les Enfants d'avril (Le Temps Parallèle, 1980), Folie couleur de mer (Le Temps Parallèle, 1983), L’Autre Écriture (Dominique Bedou, 1987 ; prix Louise-Labé 1988), Chants de l'avant-songe (L'Harmattan, 1993), Les Lieux visiteurs (Cinq continents, L'Harmattan, 1997), La Promise (Cinq Continents, L'Harmattan, 2000), La Revenante (Voix d’Encre, 2007), Baalbek : les demeures sacrificielles (Éditions du Cygne, 2007), Passagère de la durée (Éditions PHI/Editpress, 2010) et D’autres annonciations, poèmes 1980-2012 (Le Castor astral, 2012), Le Livre de Lilith (Atelier du grand Tétras, 2016), Marcheuses au bord du gouffre (éditions de La Lettre volée, 2017), Saïda/Sidon et Baalbek/Heliopolis (Ed. du Cygne, 2024),  « La dormeuse de plein jour » in Jardin sans terre (Al Manar 2024)