Ali Ahmad Said (born 1930), also known by the pseudonym Adonis, is a Syrian-born poet and literary critic who has made his career largely in Lebanon and France.
Said was born in Qassabin, in Northern Syria. From an early age, he worked in the fields, but his father regularly had him memorize poetry, and he began to compose poems of his own. In 1947 he had the opportunity to recite a poem for Syrian president Shukri al-Quwatli; that led to a series of scholarships, first to a school in Latakia and then to the Syrian University in Damascus, from which he graduated in 1954.
In 1955 he was imprisoned for six months for being a member of the Syrian National Party, a quasi-fascist party that advocated Syrian dominance over a wide swath of the Middle East. Following his release from prison in 1956, he settled in Beirut, Lebanon, where in 1957 he and Syro-Lebanese poet Yusuf al-Khal founded the magazine Shi'r ("Poetry"). At this time, he abandoned Syrian nationalism in favor of pan-Arabism; he also became a less political writer.
AliAhmadSaid Asbar (Arabic: علي أحمد سعيد إسبر; transliterated: alî ahmadi s-sacîdi l-'asbar or AliAhmadSa'id) (born 1930), also known by the pseudonym Adonis or Adunis (Arabic: أدونيس), is a Syrian-born poet and essayist who has made his career largely in Lebanon and France.
Said was born in Al Qassabin, in Northern Syria.
Said was considered to be a candidate for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, but the award went to British playwright Harold Pinter.
Born in 1930, the Syrian Adonis is said to be one of the founders of modern Arab poetry, of which he has been one of the leading exponents since the 60s.
Poets have always been good and sometimes cheeky at inventing pen-names, and this is certainly true of AliAhmadSaid, who was born in 1930 in a village in northern Syria as the son of a farmer.
Adunis) was born on 01.01.1930 as AliAhmadSaid Isbir in Qassabin, a village in the Syrian Alavite mountains near the port Lattakia.
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