The celebrated Arabic poet Adonis at the Onassis Stegi
In conversation with Yorgos Archimandritis
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Introduction
The winner of a Goethe Prize and nominated six times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Adonis, one of the Arab World’s greatest poets and a self-imposed exile from Syria, is coming to the Onassis Stegi.
Adonis was born in Syria in 1930 as Ali Ahmed Saïd Esber, but it was as Adonis—the mythological pseudonym he adopted while still a teenager—that he rose to fame; he believed that the Westernizing of his Muslim name would afford him symbolic access to universality and the act of creation. Sentenced to a prison term in his home country for his progressive political views, Adonis went into self-exile in Lebanon and then Paris, where he lives to this day.
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