She was one of the country's first short story writers in the post-independence period, publishing the collection al-Qasas al-Qawmi in 1958.
She was the daughter of the anti-colonial leader Sulayman al-Baruni and worked to collect and publish his papers and poetry after his death.
Her father was Sulayman al-Baruni, an important Libyan anti-colonial resistance leader, scholar, and poet.
Years later, the critic Fawzi al-Bishti described the collection as "a landmark in the history of the short story in Libya.
[1] On the news of her death, the writer Lutfiya al-Qaba'ili hailed her as a pioneer among Libya's literary women.