Vénus Khoury-Ghata (born 1937 in Bsharri, Lebanon) is a French-Lebanese poet and writer.

[1] Venus Khoury-Ghata was born into a Maronite family, the daughter of a French-speaking soldier and a peasant mother.

She immigrated to France to escape the war in Lebanon and married French doctor Jean Ghata, son of Turkish calligrapher, Rikkat Kunt and her second husband, Fahreddin Ghata.

[3][4] Venus Khoury-Ghata undertook literary studies at L'École Supérieur Des Lettres de Beirut.

In 2009, she received the Grand Prix de Poésie of the French Academy and the Goncourt Prize for Poetry in 2011.