Adunis

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Syrian poet, writer and translator (born 1930)

WritersBorn 1930 · age 96

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Ali Ahmad Said Esber, also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis, is a Syrian poet, essayist and translator. S.

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Adonis at the Leselenz 2015 in Hausach

Adonis in Cracow 2011

Dayâ as wall poem in Leiden

Awards 20

2021Order of Merit

2017PEN/Nabokov Award

2016Stig Dagerman Prize

2016Prince Pierre Award

2015Erich-Maria-Remarque Peace Prize

2014Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize

2013Flaiano Prize

2012honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2

2011Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt

2008Max Jacob Prize

2008Grinzane Cavour Prize

2007Bjørnson Prize

2003America Award in Literature

2003Mondello Prize

2002Al Owais Award

2001Goethe Medal

1999International Nonino Prize

1997Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎

1997Golden Wreath

1995International Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award

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SpouseKhalida Saeed

Connected to Adunis 6

Yusuf al-QaradawiAlso won Al Owais Award

Philip RothAlso won PEN/Nabokov Award

Mahmoud DarwishAlso won International Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award

Yaşar KemalAlso won Stig Dagerman Prize

Alain Robbe-GrilletAlso won Mondello Prize

Henning MankellAlso won Erich-Maria-Remarque Peace Prize

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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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