Lamia Makaddam is a Tunisian poet and translator from Sousse in Tunisia. She started writing poetry at an early age and studied Arabic language and literature at the Faculty of Arts in Sousse and has lived and worked in the Netherlands for more than twenty-seven years. She has worked as a journalist and radio presenter for Radio Netherlands International and as a criminal translator in Dutch courts. 
She has published four volumes of poetry. Her books have been translated into Dutch, Italian, French and English. 
In 2000 she was awarded the Al-Hijra Prize and in 2001 the Literature Prize for Migration in the Netherlands.