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Also Known As Adňnīs • ʿAlī Aḥmad Saʿīd Isbar • Adūnīs
Born 1930 (age 95) • Syria
Awards And Honors PEN/Nabokov Award (2017)
Notable Works “Al-Thābit wa al-mutaḥawwil”
Movement / Style Modernism • avant-garde

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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
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James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
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Anne Carson
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Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson
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Octavio Paz.
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