Adunis

Adunis

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." 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 350,388 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Adunis is the 749th most popular writer (up from 773rd in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Syria (down from 31st 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.