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Salah Stétié
Salah Stétié ( ar, صلاح ستيتية) (28 September 1929 – 19 May 2020) was a Lebanese writer and poet who wrote in the French language. He also served in various diplomatic positions for Lebanon in countries such as Morocco and France. Although his mother tongue was Arabic, Stetie chose to write in French. Biography Salah Stetie was born on 28 September 1929 in Beirut, Lebanon to a bourgeois Sunni family. His father, Mahmoud Stetie, was a teacher and Arabic poet who provided his son with a solid foundation in Arabic and Muslim culture. In his native country, he studied at the French Protestant College of Beirut, Saint Joseph University of Beirut, and the Graduate School of Arts of Beirut, where he studied Letters and Law under the tutelage of Gabriel Bounoure, whom he considered a spiritual teacher. He then studied Orientalism at the Sorbonne in 1951 under a scholarship. His time in Paris proved influential; he published the books Le Voyage D'Alep and Mercure De France ...
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Salah Stétié ( ar, صلاح ستيتية) (28 September 1929 – 19 May 2020) was a Lebanese writer and poet who wrote in the French language. He also served in various diplomatic positions for Lebanon in countries such as Morocco and France. Although his mother tongue was Arabic, Stetie chose to write in French. Biography Salah Stetie was born on 28 September 1929 in Beirut, Lebanon to a bourgeois Sunni family. His father, Mahmoud Stetie, was a teacher and Arabic poet who provided his son with a solid foundation in Arabic and Muslim culture. In his native country, he studied at the French Protestant College of Beirut, Saint Joseph University of Beirut, and the Graduate School of Arts of Beirut, where he studied Letters and Law under the tutelage of Gabriel Bounoure, whom he considered a spiritual teacher. He then studied Orientalism at the Sorbonne in 1951 under a scholarship. His time in Paris proved influential; he published the books Le Voyage D'Alep and Mercure De France ...
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1964 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March 23 – A surprise best-seller in the United Kingdom is John Lennon's ''In His Own Write'', a compendium of nonsense writing, sketches and drawings by one of the Beatles, published today. * March 29 (Easter Day) – Adrian Mitchell reads "To Whom It May Concern" to Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protesters in Trafalgar Square, London. * April 23 – The "Shakespeare Quartercentenary", the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare falling around this date, is celebrated throughout the year in lecture series, exhibitions, dramatic and musical programs and other events as well as special publications (Shakespeare issues and supplements), reprinting of standard works on the playwright and poet, and the issue of commemorative postage stamps. The American Association of Advertising Agencies suggests that Shakespeare quotations should be us ...
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Writers From Beirut
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1996 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April – National Poetry Month established by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States. * Summer/Autumn – Ledbury Poetry Festival established in England. * November 11 – A memorial to John Betjeman is unveiled in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey by Lady Wilson. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * Raewyn Alexander, ''Fat'', Auckland: PenguinWeb page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File"
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1992 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *The Forward Prizes for Poetry in the U.K. are initiated and ''The Forward Book of Poetry'', an associated annual anthology of best British poems, is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust. By 2003, the publication is selling 5,000 to 7,000 copies a year. Each year, 50 to 80 poems are selected. *The first wall poems in Leiden are installed. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * Chris Mansell, ''Shining Like a Jinx'' * Les Murray, ''Translations from the Natural World'',
Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October ...
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1991 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Forward Poetry Prize created * Dana Gioia, writing in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' suggests (in an article titled "Can Poetry Matter?") that poets recite the works of other poets at public readings.Lehman, David, preface, ''The Best American Poetry 1992'', 1992 * Joseph Brodsky, the United States poet laureate, suggests in ''The New Republic'' that an anthology of American poetry be put beside the Bible and telephone directory in every hotel room in the country. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * Les Murray, ''The Rabbiter's Bounty'' Anthologies in Australia * Philip Mead and John Tranter, '' The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry'' a major anthology of Twentieth century poetry from that nation ...
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1988 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * The first annual ''The Best American Poetry'' volume is published this year. * During a poetry reading in which popular Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky takes written questions from the audience, he reads out two responses: "All of you are Jews or sold out to Jews", one reads. Another only says, "We will kill you". In ''The Ditch: A Spiritual Trial'', published in 1986, Voznesensky had written poetry and prose about a 1941 German massacre of 12,000 Russians in the Crimea, and the looting of their mass graves in the 1980s by Soviet citizens that was tolerated, he said, by officials because the victims were primarily Jews. Voznesensky reads the notes out loud and challenges the writers to identify themselves. None does. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substan ...
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1984 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *December 19 – Ted Hughes' appointment as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in succession to Sir John Betjeman is announced, Philip Larkin having turned down the post. * After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian minister of health, publishes a poem, "A Pen Bought and Sold", that criticizes the corruption and privilege of the country's elite, he is dismissed from his post. * Prvoslav Vujčić's second collection of poems, ''Kastriranje vetra'' ("Castration of the Wind"), written during a week's imprisonment in Tuzla for criticising the state, is prohibited in Yugoslavia. * Scottish Poetry Library established. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * Robert Gray, ''The Skylight'' * Jeff Guess, ''Leaving ...
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1983 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April – Russian samizdat poet Irina Ratushinskaya is sentenced to imprisonment in a labor camp for dissident activity; she continues to write poetry clandestinely in prison. * June 2 – Francophone Senegalese poet and politician Léopold Sédar Senghor becomes the first black African writer elected as a member of the Académie française * The Frogmore Press is founded by Andre Evans and Jeremy Page at the Frogmore tea-rooms in Folkestone, England. The press publishes a magazine, ''The Frogmire Papers'' Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * David Brooks, ''The Cold Front''. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger * Les Murray, ''The People's Otherworld'', winner of the 1984 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poe ...
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