Creator Bio
Blanche Bendahan
1903–1975
A poet and novelist, Blanche Bendahan was born in Oran, Algeria, to a family of Spanish descent. She was raised and educated in France and published her first anthology of poems, La voile sur l’eau in 1926. Her highly-regarded novel Mazaltob (1930) portrays a woman struggling with traditional Moroccan family values in the face of modern French influences.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Bull
The trains watch us dreaming
in these charming meadows.
—For we don’t love eating
so much as some fellows!—
Gorging suits humans,
they crave sauce and meat.
Me, I love to chew on
grass, so green…