Adunis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Adunis

Essayist, poet

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1930

Place of Birth: Al-Qassabin, Latakia Governorate, Syria

Profession: writer, poet, translator, university teacher, journalist, literary critic, linguist, literary scholar

Nationality: Lebanon, Syria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Ali Ahmad Said Esber (North Levantine: ['?ali '?ahmad sa'?i?d '?esbe?]; born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis (Arabic: ??????? [?ado?'ni?s]), is a Syrian poet, essayist and translator who is considered one of the most influential and dominant Arab poets of the modern era.
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 ("Diwan ash-shi'r al-'arabi"), covering almost two millennia of verse, has been in print since its publication in 1964. A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Adonis has been described as the greatest living poet of the Arab world.