Adonis
1 January 1930 – present
Adonis is the pen name of Ali Ahmad Said Esber, a Syrian-born poet, critic and translator who has lived in Lebanon and France. Through the journals Shi'r and Mawaqif and works such as Songs of Mihyar the Damascene and the critical study al-Thabit wa-l-Mutahawwil, he became a central figure in the modernist transformation of Arabic poetry. He has taught in Beirut, Damascus and Paris and has translated extensively between Arabic and French.
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Life events
He was born to a farming family in a village near Latakia.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe began signing his poems with the name after repeated rejections under his own name.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe served a term of imprisonment before leaving the country.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe settled in Lebanon with his wife, the critic Khalida Said.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Beirut magazine became a platform for modernist Arabic verse and free-form poetry.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe review carried literary and political writing from across the Arab world.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis thesis became the multi-volume study al-Thabit wa-l-Mutahawwil, on tradition and change in Arab culture.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe left Beirut during the Lebanese civil war and made France his base.
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