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Etel Adnan
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Etel Adnan, born Ethel Noel Adnan on 24 February 1925 in Beirut, was a painter, poet, essayist and draftsperson who held citizenship of Lebanon, the United States and France. She was educated at the University of Paris, Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, and her work spanned poetry, painting and design from 1950. She was employed by the Dominican University of California and associated with the Hurufiyya movement.
Adnan spoke Greek, Turkish, Arabic and French, and her unmarried partner was Simone Fattal. She received the Lambda Literary Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize, and participated in dOCUMENTA (13). Her works are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and she is credited with 57 works overall. She died on 14 November 2021 in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, Paris.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 57
Top works
- Nous aimons la vie plus que vous n'aimez la mort!
- al-Sitt Mārī Rūz
- Des villes et des femmes
- Orphée face au néant
- L'effet Wittgenstein
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Key facts
- Native name
- إيتيل عدنان
- Born
- ( 1925-02-24 ) 24 February 1925, Beirut , Greater Lebanon , French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
- Died
- 14 November 2021 (2021-11-14) (aged 96), Paris , France
- Occupation
- Poet essayist novelist visual artist
- Language
- French English
- Education
- University of Paris University of California, Berkeley Harvard University
- Genre
- Poetry essays novels
- Literary movement
- Hurufiyya movement
- Notable works
- Sitt Marie Rose The Arab Apocalypse
- Notable awards
- Lambda Literary Award (2013) Griffin Poetry Prize (2020)
- Partner
- Simone Fattal
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Beirut
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- designer
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Arabic
- Participant in
- dOCUMENTA (13)
- Movement
- Hurufiyya movement
- Official website
- www.eteladnan.com
- Image
- Etel Adnan, 2008 (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- France
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- Commons category
- Etel Adnan
- date of birth
- 1925-02-24
- unmarried partner
- Simone Fattal
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- date of death
- 2021-11-14
- name in native language
- إيتيل عدنان
- birth name
- Ethel Noel Adnan
- start of work period
- 1950-01-01
- end of work period
- 2021-01-01
- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
- P12674
- Silvio Vietta
- web feed URL
- derbyshireuk.net/trang-chu/feed
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Encyclopedic overview
Etel Adnan (Arabic: إيتيل عدنان; 24 February 1925 – 14 November 2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, novelist, and visual artist, and the author of Sitt Marie Rose. In 2003, the academic journal MELUS called her "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today".
In a 2021 obituary, ArtAsiaPacific wrote that Adnan was known in both literary and artistic circles and had become increasingly visible as a painter later in life; her work was exhibited internationally, including at documenta 13, the Whitney Biennial, and the Museum of Modern Art.
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