WRITER

Adunis

1930 - Today

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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 (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." 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adunis has received more than 360,826 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Adunis is the 835th most popular writer (down from 748th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Syria (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 2nd 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

al-Thābit wa-al-mutaḥawwil
Arab Civilization, Arabic poetry, History
1974
Muqaddimah lil-shiʻr al-ʻArabī
Arabic poetry, Philosophy, Versification
1975
Mufrad bi-ṣīghat al-jamʻ
1970
Adūnīs
Interviews, Arab Poets
2005
Toucher la lumière
Poésie libanaise, Traductions françaises
2003
Aghānī Mihyār al-Dimashqī
1968

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adunis ranks 835 out of 7,302. Before him are Venantius Fortunatus, Franz Grillparzer, Zhang Sanfeng, John Bunyan, Gerard of Cremona, and Bacchylides. After him are Dubravka Ugrešić, Thietmar of Merseburg, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Tibor Sekelj, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Miroslav Krleža.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Adunis ranks 54. Before him are Robert Wagner, Jean Rochefort, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Carlos Kleiber, Jerome Isaac Friedman, and Leon Cooper. After him are Moustapha Akkad, Yves Chauvin, Tippi Hedren, Anton LaVey, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, and Jesús Franco.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Adunis ranks 40 out of 210. Before him are Émile Benveniste (1902), Michel Aflaq (1910), Ananias of Damascus (100), Abu'l-Fida (1273), Maron (301), and Odaenathus (220). After him are Moustapha Akkad (1930), Heliodorus of Emesa (250), Nizar Qabbani (1923), Levon Ter-Petrosyan (1945), Al-Dhahabi (1274), and Tutush I (1066).

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Among WRITERS In Syria

Among writers born in Syria, Adunis ranks 2. Before him are Al-Maʿarri (973). After him are Heliodorus of Emesa (250), Nizar Qabbani (1923), Andrew of Crete (660), Herodian (170), Khaled al-Asaad (1932), Abu Tammam (788), Usama ibn Munqidh (1095), Jurji Zaydan (1861), Cassius Longinus (213), and Alciphron (200).

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