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French poet
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Birth:
17 July 1951(Tunis, Tunisia)
Death:
24 July 2008(Paris, France)
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Biography
Alain Suied (July 17, 1951 – July 24, 2008) was a French poet and translator.
Suied was born in Tunis into what was then the Jewish community in that city. In 1959 he moved to Paris with his parents. His first poem was published in 1968 in the journal L'Ephemeral. Andre du Bouchet helped him get his first book published in 1970. Suied received the Nelly Sachs Prize for translation.
He is buried in the cemetery of Montparnasse.