He was born into an Alawite family in Latakia, Syria, and began to write poems since he was a child. 1947, with the support of Shukri al-Quwatli, the first Syrian president, he was given the opportunity to study in Damascus University, where he graduated from philosophy in 1954. At about this time, he began to write under the pseudonym "adonis".
1955, he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for participating in the activities of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party. 1956 after he was released from prison, he moved to Beirut, Lebanon, and founded literary publications such as Poetry and Stand, which had a great influence on the development of modern Arabic poetry. After that, he gave up the idea of pan-Syrianism and became a pan-Arabist, gradually divorced from politics.
1960 went to study in Paris, France, and 1970 returned to Lebanon to teach Arabic literature and obtain a doctorate in literature.
1980 emigrated to Paris to escape the Lebanese civil war, and now he is a professor at the University of Paris.
Adonis is a poet, thinker, literary theorist, translator and painter. He is the most outstanding contemporary Arab poet and thinker, and enjoys a high reputation in the field of poetry. His views on the innovation and modernization of poetry have far-reaching influence and caused great controversy in the Arab world. Up to now, * * * has published 22 books of poetry, including Leaves in the Wind, Songs of Mikhail in Damascus and This is My Name, and has written nearly 20 cultural and literary works and some translated works. Its masterpiece "Stability and Change", which aims to rewrite the history of Arab thought and literature, was published in four volumes, which caused a shock in the whole Arab cultural circle and was recognized as a classic work of Arab literature and culture.
He has won the Brussels Literature Award, the Turkish Hikmet Literature Award, the Macedonian Golden Crown Poetry Award and the Sultan of the United Arab Emirates. 6? 1 Avis Poetry Award, Jean of France? 6? 1 Mario foreign literature prize and Max? 6? 1 Jacob foreign book award, Italiano Nino poetry award and Greenzana? 6? 1 carver literature prize and other international awards. In recent years, he has been a popular candidate for Nobel Prize in Literature.
In March 2009, the first Chinese translation of my work My Loneliness is a Garden was published by Yilin Publishing House.