Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan (24 February 1925 – 14 November 2021) was a Lebanese-American Feminist writer, poet, essayist, and visual artist.

Honors
In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.Majaj, Lisa Suhair and Amireh, Amal (Eds.) "Etel Adnan: Critical Essays on the Arab-American Writer and Artist", Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Retrieved 12 November 2014.

Legacy
Besides her literary works, Adnan worked on visual works in a variety of media, such as oil paintings, movies and tapestries, which have been exhibited at galleries across the world.

Personal life
She lived in Paris and Sausalito, California."Etel Adnan" , The Whitney Museum of American Art, Retrieved 10 April 2014. Adnan openly identifies as lesbian.Lisa Suhair Majaj and Amal Amireh, Etel Adnan: Critical Essays on the Arab-American Writer and Artist. McFarland & Company, 2001. .

Adnan died in Paris on 14 November 2021, at the age of 96.

 Related pages 
List of poets from North America

References

Other websites
 Website of Etel Adnan 
 Translated excerpt from Sitt Marie Rose
 Culturebase  (in German)
 Anne Mullin Burnham, Reflections in Women's Eyes, 1994, Saudi Aramco World 

Category:1924 births
Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States
Category:Lebanese poets
Category:American feminist writers
Category:American poets
Category:American artists
Category:Lesbian feminists
Category:American LGBT writers
Category:LGBT people from California
Category:Writers from California
Category:2021 deaths