Samira Negrouche

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Born in Algiers, Samira Negrouche is the author of Traces (Fidel Anthelme X, 2021) and The Olive Trees’ Jazz and Other Poems (Pleiades Press, 2020), translated by Marilyn Hacker.

Negrouche’s other books include Quai 2I1, partition à trois axes, (Éditions Mazette, 2019); Six arbres de fortune autour de ma baignoire (Éditions Mazette, 2017); Le Jazz des oliviers (Éditions du Tell, 2010); and A l’ombre de Grenade (A.P. l’étoile, 2003). Her poetry has been translated into over twenty languages, and she is the founder of Quai 2I1, alongside the violinist Marianne Piketty and the theorist Bruno Helstroffer.

A translator from Arabic and English to French, Negrouche lives in Algiers.