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ADONIS

Adonis is a pioneer of modern Arabic poetry. He is often seen as a rebel, an iconoclast who follows his own rules. "Arabic poetry is not the monolith this dominant critical view suggests, but is pluralistic, sometimes to the point of self-contradiction(................................)

After a trip to New York in 1971, Adonis wrote the poem "The Funeral of New York", which opens:

Picture the earth as a pear
or breast.
Between such fruits and death
survives an engineering trick:
New York,
Call it a city on four legs
heading for murder
while the drowned already moan
in the distance.
New York is a woman
holding, according to history,
a rag called liberty with one hand
and strangling the earth with the other.

In 2007 he was awarded the Bjørnson Prize. In 2011 he won the Goethe Prize.^[6] He is a perennial favorite to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.^[7]  the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer instead of Adunis