Yusuf al-Khal
Yusuf al-Khal يوسف الخال | |
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Yusuf al-Khal | |
| Born | December 25, 1917 Amar al-Husn, Homs Governorate, Syria |
| Died | March 9, 1987 (aged 69) |
| Occupation | Poet, writer |
| Language | Varieties of Arabic |
| Genre | Prose poetry |
| Literary movement | Avant-garde |
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| yusufalkhal | |
Yusuf al-Khal (Arabic: يوسف الخال; December 25, 1917 – March 9, 1987) was a Syrian-Lebanese poet, journalist, and publisher. He is considered the greatest exponent of avantgardist prose poetry (qaṣīdat al-natr) in the Arab world as well one of the pioneers of Arabic surrealist poetry.
With fellow poets Adonis and Ounsi el-Hajj, al-Khal founded the magazine Shi'r ("Poetry") in Beirut in 1957, initiating a movement to modernize Arabic literature. Al-Khal's poetry has been recognized in Near East poetry collections. He was also one of the first to translate English-language poets such as Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Frost into Arabic.