Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan
	Adnan in 2008
Native name	إيتيل عدنان
Born	24 February 1925; Beirut, Greater Lebanon, French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
Died	14 November 2021 (aged 96); Paris, France
Occupation	Poet; essayist; novelist; visual artist;
Language	French; English;
Education	University of Paris; University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University;
Genre	Poetry; essays; novels;
Literary movement	Hurufiyya movement
Notable works	Sitt Marie Rose; The Arab Apocalypse;
Notable awards	Lambda Literary Award (2013); Griffin Poetry Prize (2020);
Partner	Simone Fattal

Etel Adnan (Arabic: إيتيل عدنان; 24 February 1925 – 14 November 2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, novelist, and visual artist, and the author of Sitt Marie Rose. In 2003, the academic journal MELUS called her "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today".

In a 2021 obituary, ArtAsiaPacific wrote that Adnan was known in both literary and artistic circles and had become increasingly visible as a painter later in life; her work was exhibited internationally, including at documenta 13, the Whitney Biennial, and the Museum of Modern Art.