Najet Adouani, Tunisian writer, holds a diploma in English Literature and a diploma in Journalism and Communication. She writes poems, short stories, literary reviews and novels. Her poems have been published in major Arabic newspapers and magazines as well as many international anthologies and have been translated into Swedish, French, English, Hindi, Spanish, Romanian and German. Some of her poems have been set to music by well-known composers in Tunisia and Germany. She has participated in many international literary festivals and her writings have been the subject of studies at European, US and Arab universities.

She made her writings a voice for the oppressed, marginalized and oppressed minorities and fought for just causes and freedom of expression, especially for women who still suffer and struggle to determine their destiny in male-dominated societies.

She won the 2011 Credif Award for Women’s Writing in Tunisia. The Mustafa Azouz Award for Children’s Literature 2007 for her story “The Crystal Palace”. The 1974 Arab Song Festival Award for two poems by the famous composer Saleh Al-Mahdi-Ziryab. And in 2016 “Meerwüste” was nominated for the (LiBeraturpreis).

She has received scholarships: 2012 “Friedl-Dicker-Scholarship Weimar”. From April 2013 to April 2016, Adouani was a guest of the PEN Center Germany's “Writers in Exile” program. Between June and October 2016 “Alfred Döblin Scholarship”.

She published in Tunisia: In every wound a lily, The cooing of a soul of steel, Black joy, Who stole my shadow {poems}, Mirror for a single corpse {stories}, In the nest of cancer {novel}. And in Beirut: Heavenly Roots {Poems}. In Germany: A collection of poems in two languages ​​– Arabic and German – entitled “Meerwüste” was published in 2016 by “Lotus” publishing house. In 2021, a collection of poems entitled “Volcanic words on the body made of snow” was published by the PEN Club and Assoverlag.