Hédi Kaddour was born in Tunisia, but has lived in France since childhood. He has published three books of poems with Gallimard: La Fin des vendanges (1989), Jamais une ombre simple (1994), and Passage au Luxembourg (2000). Other poems of his, in Marilyn Hacker's translation, have appeared in APR, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, and Verse.