Nour Cadour

A Franco-Syrian novelist and poet, Nour CADOUR was born in France in 1990. She also works part-time as a doctor. Her first novel, *L’âme du luthier*, was published by Hello Éditions in February 2022 and was a finalist for the 2023 Europe and Mediterranean Book Prize. Her first collection of poems, *Larmes de lune* (Moon Tears), was published by L’Appeau’Strophe Éditions in September 2022 (winner of the Saint-John Perse Foundation Prize in 2022 and the Jacques Raphaël-Leygues Prize from the Société des Poètes Français in 2021). A second collection, *Le silence pour son*, was published in January 2023 by *L’échappée belle* (a finalist for the Maryse Condé Fetkann Prize). In December 2023, *Le bleu de la mer s’est enfui* was published by Les Carnets du dessert de lune and won the Leynaud Prize for middle and high schools in 2025. In 2026, she co-founded, with Alice Chappaz and Anne Plantier, the poetry association and publishing house *Editions du Bout de La Langue*.