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Adonis (Arabic: أدونيس (Adūnīs)) is the pen name of the Syrian poet and translator Ali Ahmed Said. He has written more than twenty books and volumes of poetry in the Arabic language as well as translated several works from French. He has been regularly nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature since 1988 and has been described as the greatest living poet of the Arab world. Ali Ahmed Said was born in 1930 in the village of al-Qassabīn in north western Syria, but has settled abroad and made his career largely in Lebanon and France.