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عربي

Ali Ahmad Said Esber

Ali Ahmad Said Esber

(1930 - Present)

🇸🇾 Syria

Ali Ahmad Said Esber (Arabic: علي أحمد سعيد إسبر, North Levantine: Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʕali ˈʔaħmad saˈʕiːd ˈʔesbeɾ]; born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis (Arabic: أدونيس Arabic pronunciation: [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." ...

Biography was retrieved from Wikipedia and was last updated on April 2024.

3 Books

Sufism and Surrealism
An Introduction to Arab Poetics
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