Salah Stétié

Salah Stétié (Arabic: صلاح ستيتية) (28 September 1929 – 19 May 2020) was a Lebanese writer and poet who wrote in the French language.

Salah Stetie was born on 28 September 1929 in Beirut, Lebanon to a bourgeois Sunni family.

His time in Paris proved influential; he published the books Le Voyage D'Alep and Mercure De France, and became friends with a number of French poets including Yves Bonnefoy.

In the 1960s, he served as a Lebanese Cultural Diplomat in Paris and Occidental Europe, and also as UNESCO's delegate for Lebanon.

In 1987 he was appointed Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs in his home country, before returning to his diplomatic position in the Netherlands in 1991.