Adunis
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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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- Born
- 1930
- Works
- 139
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Quotes
- “New York is a womanholding, according to history,a rag called liberty with one handand strangling the earth with the other.”
- “I wanted to break the linearity of poetic text to mess with it, if you will. The poem is meant to be a network rather than a single rope of thought.”
- “Poetry can only change the notion of relationships between things. Culture cannot change without a change in institutions.”
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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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1930 births20th-century essayists20th-century mystics20th-century Syrian poets20th-century Syrian translators21st-century Syrian poetsAcademic staff of Damascus UniversityAcademic staff of Lebanese UniversityCommons link from WikidataDamascus University alumniFrench–Arabic translatorsGeorgetown University faculty