Amina Saïd

Saïd, Amina (b. 1953). Tunisian poet, whose poetic language is at once erotic and esoteric. Her quest for an artistic identity, as expressed in her three volumes of poems, Paysages, Nuit friable (1980), Sables funambules (1988), and Feux d'oiseaux (1989), transcends national boundaries and embraces a wider humanity. Saïd received the Jean Malrieux Prize in 1989 for Feux d'oiseaux.

[<auth>Hédi Abdel-Jaouad]