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Adunis

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Ali Ahmad Said Esber (Arabic: علي أحمد سعيد إسبر, North Levantine Arabic: [ˈʕali ˈʔaħmad saˈʕiːd ˈʔesbeɾ]; born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis (أدونيس [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." Adonis's publications include twenty volumes of poetry and thirteen of criticism. His dozen books of translation to Arabic include the poetry of Saint-John Perse and Yves Bonnefoy, and the first complete Arabic translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" (2002). His multi-volume anthology of Arabic poetry ("Dīwān ash-shi'r al-'arabī"), covering almost two millennia of verse, has been in print since its publication in 1964. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adunis is the 910th most popular writer (down from 834th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Syria (down from 40th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Syrian Writer.

Adonis is most famous for being a handsome young man who was loved by Aphrodite, the goddess of love. He was killed by a wild boar and Aphrodite was so distraught that she turned him into an anemone flower.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adunis ranks 910 out of 7,302. Before him are Pu Songling, Eleanor Marx, Wilkie Collins, Władysław Tarnowski, Leconte de Lisle, and Samuel Richardson. After him are Pierre-Jean de Béranger, H. Rider Haggard, Italo Svevo, Mercè Rodoreda, MacKenzie Scott, and Ida Tarbell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Adunis ranks 73. Before him are Derek Walcott, Johan Galtung, Robert Wagner, Ivan Silayev, William R. Pogue, and Mary Quant. After him are Moustapha Akkad, Stanley Miller, Gaafar Nimeiry, Sonia Rykiel, Jean Rochefort, and Luce Irigaray.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Adunis ranks 54 out of 210. Before him are Levon Ter-Petrosyan (1945), Julia Avita Mamaea (180), Al-Dhahabi (1274), Nizar Qabbani (1923), Ahmad al-Khatib (1933), and Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (1882). After him are Damascius (480), Maron (301), Moustapha Akkad (1930), Al-Qa'im (893), Thierry, Count of Flanders (1100), and Salah al-Din al-Bitar (1912).

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Among WRITERS In Syria

Among writers born in Syria, Adunis ranks 5. Before him are Khaled al-Asaad (1932), Al-Maʿarri (973), Heliodorus of Emesa (250), and Nizar Qabbani (1923). After him are Andrew of Crete (660), Herodian (170), Abu Tammam (788), Cassius Longinus (213), Usama ibn Munqidh (1095), Jurji Zaydan (1861), and Ahmad ibn Arabshah (1389).

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