Learn about the most prominent works of writer Etel Adnan after Google celebrated her… Pictures

Today, Monday, the search engine Google celebrates the Arab-American writer and poet.Etel AdnanShe was born in Beirut on February 24, 1925, and passed away on November 14, 2021, at the age of 96. She is considered one of the most prominent Arab-American writers of her time.

I was born Writer Etel Adnan In Beirut, Lebanon, in 1925, about a Greek Christian mother from Smyrna, and a Muslim father from Syria who was a non-commissioned officer, so she grew up speaking Greek and Turkish in a society that mainly spoke Arabic. She published her first literary works in French, because she received her education in French schools for nuns, then she learned English. After that, while she was still young, she wrote the rest of her works with it.

Etel published a collection of books and poems. She wrote a long poem entitled “The Arab Day of Resurrection” in 1998 in English and was later translated, and “October 27,” which she wrote in French after the American invasion of Iraq, and the novel “Lady Marie Rose,” which talks about… The Lebanese Civil War, the book “Journey to Mount Montalbais,” translated by Amal Debo, “To Fawaz,” a collection of letters, “The Book of the Sea,” “Paris When Naked,” “The Linden Poems,” and “A Sky Without a Sky.”

Etel is also a painter who exhibited a series of her paintings at the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany in 2012, and in 2014 she displayed a group of her paintings and works at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She also displayed her work at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha under the title “Etel Adnan in all its dimensions.” In March 2014.

And it happened Etel Adnan She received a number of different awards, including an award for her novel “Lady Marie Rose” from France in 1977, and the Arab American Book Award in 2010. She received the California Poetry Prize for her poetry collection “The Sea and the Mist” in 2013. She also received the Lambda Prize for Literature in 2013. She was named Knight of Literature by the French government in 2014, in addition to a host of other awards and honours.

Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan