page_title: Andrée Chedid
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Andrée Chedid / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Bibliothèque Andrée-Chedid, 36 rue Émeriau (Paris, 15e).
context_page_description: Andrée Chedid, born Andrée Saab Khoury, was an Egyptian-French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent. She is the recipient of numerous literary awards and was made a Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour in 2009.
context_section_description: In an appraisal, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called her part of a "generation of cosmopolitan intellectuals who chose France as their new home after the war, helping the country to a literary renaissance".
  Her work questions human condition and what links the individual to the world. Her writing seeks to evoke the Orient, but she focuses more in denouncing the civil war that destroys Lebanon. She lived in France from 1946 until her death. Because of this diverse background, her work is truly multicultural. Her first book was written in English: On the Trails of my Fancy. She has commented about her work that it is an eternal quest for humanity.
  She died on 6 February 2011 in Paris at the age of 90.
  In 2012, a public library was named for her, in Paris.
caption: Bibliothèque Andrée-Chedid, 36 Émeriau street (Paris)
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