Najet Adouani

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Najet Adouani (* 1956 in El Hamma , Tunisia ) is a Tunisian writer , poet and journalist . In addition, Adounani is committed to human rights in Tunisia.

Life

Naejt Adouani was born in El Hamma , in the south of Tunisia, in 1956 and grew up in La Marsa , near Tunis . Adoudani began to write early on. After finishing school, she studied journalism. Even in her youth, Adouani campaigned for social justice, democracy and the rights of women and was persecuted by the Tunisian state for this. She wrote articles for opposition Tunisian newspapers and published numerous poems from 1982 onwards. Since 1982 she has also been a member of the Tunisian Writers' Association.

In 1983 Adouani went into exile due to the repression - she stayed with her husband in Cyprus, Algeria, Morocco and Lebanon - and did not return until 1998. Her three sons were born in exile. Upon her return, she divorced her husband and raised her sons alone.

After the Tunisian revolution as a result of the Arab Spring , Adouani was banned from publishing. Thereupon Adouani went into exile again, to Germany. First she received the Friedl-Dicker-Scholarship from the Weimar Association . From April 2013 to April 2016 Adouani was a guest of the “Writers in Exile” program of the PEN Center Germany .

Najet Adouani has published seven volumes of poetry and a collection of short stories in Arabic, and another 15 manuscripts are awaiting publication. Her poems have been translated into English, French, Spanish and Hindi. In 2010 she won the Feminine Poetry Prize.

In 2016 the composer Martin Christoph Redel used poems and interview excerpts by Najet Adouani for his STREICHQUARTETT III (with soprano) with the subtitle "Between Wound and Pain". World premiere in 2017 in Hamburg.

Web links

  • Claudia Kramatschek: "I love freedom". In: Qantara. July 6, 2015, accessed October 25, 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sabine Kebir: Half heaven. In: Friday. October 7, 2015, accessed October 25, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Najet Adouani. PEN Center Germany, 2016, accessed on October 26, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Adouani, Najet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian writer, poet and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH El Hamma , Tunisia