The beauty maker and the truth that denied the barriers, Google celebrates the writer and poet Etel Adnan
The global search engine “Google” celebrates the memory of the writer, artist and poet “Etel Adnan“, who is of Lebanese, Greek and Syrian descent.
The diversity of her origins had a great impact on her inclinations and dialects, so she mastered Greek and Turkish, and received her education in French schools for nuns, and French was the language in which she wrote her first work, and she also learned English in her youth, so it was the language in which her works were written later.
At the age of twenty-four, Adnan traveled to Paris, where she received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne, and then headed to the United States to resume her studies there at the University of California (Berkeley) and Harvard University. From 1952 to 1978, she taught philosophy of art at Dominican University in California, San Rafael, and lectured at several universities across the United States.
Adnan then returned to Lebanon to work as a journalist and cultural editor for Safa, a French-language newspaper in Beirut, and contributed to building the newspaper’s cultural section and adding illustrations. Her tenure at the newspaper was marked by an editorial in which she commented on the most important political issues.
In her later years, Adnan declared herself a lesbian.
Perhaps her most prominent literary works are the following:
- Arab Doomsday: A lengthy poem published in 1998, published in English and then translated.
- October 27: I wrote it in French after the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
- The novel “Six Mary Rose” about the Lebanese civil war.
- The book «Journey to Mount Montalpais»: translated by Amal Deboux.
- To Fawaz: A collection of letters.
- «Book of the Sea».
- “Paris when you get naked”
- «Linden poems».
- «Heaven without sky».
During her career, she received several awards and honors, in 1977 she was awarded a prize from France for her novel “Six Marie Rose”, in 2010 she was awarded the Arab-American Book Prize, and in 2013 her poetry collection “The Sea and the Fog” won the California Prize for Poetry… In 2013, she received the Lambada Prize for Literature… The title of Knight of Literature was acquired by the French government.