Alain Nadaud (5 July 1948 – 12 June 2015) was a French novelist, writer and diplomat.[1][2] He was born in Paris and studied literature at Nanterre, obtaining a master's degree. Nadaud then taught literature abroad, in Nouakchott, Mauritania and in Basra, Iraq. After completing a doctorate, he went abroad again to teach French in Kwara state in Nigeria.