Samira Negrouche

Samira Negrouche is a writer, poet, and translator whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Pente Raide [Steep Slope] (Actes Sud, 2025), cowritten with Marin Fouqué; J’habite en mouvement [I Live in Motion] (Editions Barzakh, 2023); Stations (Editions Chèvre-feuille étoilée, 2023); and Traces (Fidel Anthelme X, 2021).

Negrouche’s book Le Jazz de oliviers [The Olive Trees’ Jazz] (Pleiades Press, 2020), translated by Marilyn Hacker, was short-listed for the 2021 National Translation Award, as well as the Derek Walcott Prize that same year.

In 2018, she cofounded Quai 2I1, a poetic musical show series. A translator from Arabic and English to French, as well as a medical doctor, Negrouche lives in Algiers.