Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan was born in 1925 in Beirut, to a Greek mother from Smyrna and a Damascene father, a senior officer in the Ottoman army. She learned French at school, studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, then at Berkeley and Harvard, and taught it at the Dominican College in San Rafael, California. Back in Beirut in the early 1970s, she worked in the French-language press. A painter recognised late in life, exhibited at documenta in Kassel in 2012, she died in Paris on 14 November 2021.

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• NovelSitt Marie RoseEtel Adnan · 1978Literature