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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- Born in
- Al-Qassabin
- Educated at
- Damascus UniversitySaint Joseph University of Beirut
- Awards
- 🏆 Goethe Prize🏆 Grinzane Cavour Prize🏆 Goethe Medal
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1930
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