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Adunis
Ali Ahmad Said Esber, also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis, 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."
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culture · Syrian poet, writer and translator (born 1930) · poet · writer · translator · journalist · university teacher · literary scholar · literary critic · also Adunis, Adonis (poet), Adonis, ʻAlī Aḥmad Saʻīd Asbir, Alī Ahmad Sa'īd, Ali Ahmad Said Esber
Born 1 January 1930 · Q380787
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2026· 2 entries
“tendency for poets and painters in the Arab world to be politically engaged. There”
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit (2021).
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded PEN/Nabokov Award (2017).
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The judges' panel for the PEN/Nabokov Award cited "Through the force of his language, boldness of his innovation, and depth of his feeling, Ali Ahmad Said Esber, known as 'Adonis,' has helped make Arabic, one of the worl
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Stig Dagerman Prize (2016).
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Awarded Prince Pierre Award (2016).
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Erich-Maria-Remarque Peace Prize (2015).
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize (2014).
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Flaiano Prize (2013).
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Islamic scholar fr:Abdelfattah Hamadache called for Adonis's books to be burned following a poem allegedly attributed to him
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2012· 3 entries
Global Times: Poet Adunis visits Beijing to promote new book
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2 (2012).
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A major tribute to Adonis, including an exhibition of his drawings and a series of literary events was organized in The Mosaic Rooms in West London
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2011· 5 entries
Al Jazeera English: Adunis, the revolutionary poet
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Awarded Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (2011).
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Khaled Mattawa translation of Adonis: Selected Poems was Selected as a finalist for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize sponsored by the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry
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Emerged as a front runner to be awarded the Nobel Prize, but it was instead awarded to the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, with Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, commenting that there is n
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Grinzane Cavour Prize (2008).
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Awarded Max Jacob Prize (2008).
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Bjørnson Prize (2007).
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Arabian Business named Adonis No
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Mondello Prize (2003).
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Awarded America Award in Literature (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Al Owais Award (2002).
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2001· 1 entry
Won Goethe Medal (2001).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded International Nonino Prize (1999).
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1997· 2 entries
Won Golden Wreath (1997).
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Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1997).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded International Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award (1995).
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1987· 1 entry
“Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea (2003)”
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1986· 1 entry
Nearly two decades before it appeared in English, and depicts the desolation of New York City as emblematic of empire, described as a violently anti-American, in the poem Walt Whitman the known American poet, as the cham
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1985· 1 entry
Moved with his wife and two daughters to Paris, which has remained their primary residence
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1980· 1 entry
Emigrated to Paris to escape the Lebanese Civil War
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1976· 1 entry
Was a visiting professor at the University of Damascus
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1975· 1 entry
Adonis has lived in Paris, France, since 1975.
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1974· 1 entry
Till 1978 (still in print in Arabic, now in 8th edition) by Dar al-Saqi, the book is a four-volume study described in the under title as "a study of creativity and adheration in Arabs"), Adonis started original writings
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1971· 2 entries
During which Adonis participated in the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, PA
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“Desire Moving Through Maps of Matter (1987)”
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1970· 1 entry
Adonis published "A Time Between Ashes and Roses" as a volume consisting of two long poems 'An Introduction to the History of the Petty Kings' and 'This Is My Name' and in the 1972 edition augmented them with 'A Grave Fo
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1969· 1 entry
The poem was first published in 1970 with two long poems, then reissued two years later with an additional poem ("A Grave for New York"), in A Time Between Ashes and Roses collection of poems
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1968· 3 entries
And financed by Egypt and the Soviet Union
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Considered a significant literary and cultural quarterly
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Titled Mawāqif, in which he again published experimental poetry
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1965· 1 entry
“The Book of Similarities and Beginnings (1980)”
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1964· 1 entry
And Adonis did not rejoin the Shiʿr editors when they resumed publication in 1967
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1961· 1 entry
This is Adonis's third book of poetry, "The Songs of Mihyar of Damascus" (or the Damascene in different translation) marked a definitive disruption of existing poetics and a new direction in poetic language
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1957· 2 entries
Cofounded the magazine Majallat Shiʿr ("Poetry Magazine")
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“Migrations and Transformations in the Regions of Night and Day (1965)”
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1956· 3 entries
To literary critic Khalida Said (née Saleh), who assisted in editing roles in both Shiʿr and Mawaqif
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Adonis fled Syria for Beirut, Lebanon
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And I've been in conflict with it for more than 50 years
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1950· 1 entry
Adonis published his first collection of verse, Dalila, as he joined the Syrian University (now Damascus University) to study law and philosophy, graduating in 1954 with a BA in philosophy
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1945· 1 entry
And Adonis was transferred to other national schools before graduating in 1949
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1944· 1 entry
Despite the animosity of the village chief and his father's reluctance, the young poet managed to recite one of his poems before Shukri al-Quwatli, the president of the newly-established Republic of Syria, who was on a v
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1930· 2 entries
Adonis hails from the village of al-Qassabin near the city of Latakia in northwestern Syria
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Born 1930-01-01.
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