Amina Said is a poet based in Tunis, Tunisia. The author of fourteen collections of poetry, her most recent is Le Saisons d’Aden published in 2011. She has two collections of retold Tunisian folklore, Le Secret published in 1994 and Demi -coq et campagnine published in 1997. She received the Jean Marlieu Prize in 1989 and the Charles Vildrac Prize in 1994. She writes and translates in both French and Spanish and has a bilingual collection of poems, The Present Tense of the World, published in 2000. Sables funambles is her third book, which was translated into Spanish. Many of her works have been translated into other languages such as German, Arabic, or Italian, by various authors and translators.
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