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Adunis
Sign in to saveAlso known as Adonis, Adūnīs, ʻAlī Aḥmad Saʻīd Asbir, Alī Ahmad Sa'īd, Ali Ahmad Said Esber, Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, ʿAlī Aḥmad Isbir Adūnīs, ʿAlī Aḥmad Saʿīd Adūnīs
Syrian poet, writer and translator (born 1930)
Adonis is a Syrian poet, writer, and translator born in 1930 who is considered one of the most influential figures in modern Arabic literature. His work has significantly shaped contemporary Arabic poetry and literary thought through his innovative approaches to language and form.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ali
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Al-Qassabin
- Occupation
- literary critic
- Educated at
- Saint Joseph University of Beirut
- Political party
- Syrian Social Nationalist Party
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- Arabic
- Religion
- atheism
- Image
- Adonis-1084.jpg
- Residence
- Paris
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- Commons category
- Adonis (writer)
- date of birth
- 1930-01-01
- pseudonym
- Adonis
- Commons gallery
- Adonis (writer)
- writing language
- Arabic
- birth name
- علي أحمد سعيد إسبر
- relative
- Muhammad al-Maghut
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Encyclopedic overview
Ali Ahmad Said Esber (Arabic: علي أحمد سعيد إسبر, North Levantine Arabic: [ˈʕali ˈʔaħmad saˈʕiːd ˈʔesbeɾ]; born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis (أدونيس [ʔadoːˈniːs]), is a Syrian poet, essayist and translator. Maya Jaggi, writing for The Guardian stated "He led a modernist revolution in the second half of the 20th century, "exerting a seismic influence" on Arabic poetry comparable to T.S. Eliot's in the anglophone world."
Adonis's publications include twenty volumes of poetry and thirteen of criticism. His dozen books of translation to Arabic include the poetry of Saint-John Perse and Yves Bonnefoy, and the first complete Arabic translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" (2002). His multi-volume anthology of Arabic poetry ("Dīwān ash-shi'r al-'arabī"), covering almost two millennia of verse, has been in print since its publication in 1964.
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