Etel Adnan Explained

Etel Adnan
Birth Date:	24 February 1925
Birth Place:	Beirut, Greater Lebanon, French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
Death Place:	Paris, France
Nationality:	Lebanese
Genre:	Poetry, essays, visual arts
Movement:	Hurufiyya movement
Partner:	Simone Fattal
Education:	University of Paris University of California, Berkeley Harvard University

Etel Adnan (Arabic: إيتيل عدنان; 24 February 1925 – 14 November 2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist. 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.^[1]

In addition to her literary output, Adnan made visual works in a variety of media, such as oil paintings, films and tapestries, which have been exhibited at galleries across the world.

Life

Etel N. Adnan was born in 1925 in Beirut, Lebanon.^{[2] [3]} Adnan's mother, Rose "Lily" Lacorte, was Greek Orthodox from Smyrna and her father, Assaf Kadri, was a Sunni Muslim-Turkish, and a high-ranking Ottoman officer born in Damascus, Ottoman Syria.

Assaf Kadri's mother was Albanian.^[4] Adnan's grandfather was a Turkish soldier.^[5] Her father came from a wealthy family; he was a top officer and former classmate of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk at the military academy. In contrast, Adnan's mother was raised in extreme poverty; her parents met in Smyrna during World War I while her father was serving as an officer in Smyrna. Prior to marrying Adnan's mother, her father was already married with three children. After the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Adnan's parents migrated to Beirut. Adnan stated that her mother was 16 years old when she met her father, at a time when "the Greeks in Turkey were in concentration camps."^{[6] [7]}

Though she grew up speaking Greek and Turkish in a primarily Arabic-speaking society, she was educated at French convent schools and French became the language in which her early work was first written.^[8] She also studied English in her youth, and most of her later work was first written in this language.

At 24, Adnan traveled to Paris where she received a degree in philosophy from the University of Paris.^[6] She then traveled to the United States where she continued graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Harvard University.^[6] From 1958 to 1972, she was a professor of the philosophy of art at the Dominican University of California in San Rafael.^{[9] [6]} She also lectured at many universities throughout the United States.

Adnan returned from the US to Lebanon and worked as a journalist and cultural editor for Al Safa newspaper, a French-language newspaper in Beirut. In addition, she also helped build the cultural section of the newspaper, occasionally contributing cartoons and illustrations. Her tenure at Al Safa was most notable for her front-page editorials, commenting on the important political issues of the day.^[10]

In her later years, Adnan began to openly identify as lesbian.^[11] She met her partner Simone Fattal in 1972 and the couple lived together until Adnan's death. The two of them worked together on The Post-Apollo Press which was founded by Fattal in 1982, and where Adnan was a vital contributor as an author and translator.

Adnan lived in Paris and Sausalito, California.^[12] She died in Paris on 14 November 2021, at the age of 96.^{[13] [14]}

A documentary about Adnan's life by American filmmaker Marie Valentine Regan in collaboration with the artist, began production in 2023 about "the last five years of her life".^[15]

Visual art

Adnan also worked as a painter, her earliest abstract works were created using a palette knife to apply oil paint onto the canvas – often directly from the tube – in firm swipes across the picture's surface. The focus of the compositions often being a red square, she was interested in the "immediate beauty of colour".^{[16] [17]} In 2012, a series of the artist's brightly colored abstract paintings were exhibited as a part of documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany.^[18]

In the 1960s, she began integrating Arabic calligraphy into her artworks and her books, such as Livres d'Artistes [Artist's Books].^[19] She recalls sitting for hours copying words from an Arabic grammar without trying to understand the meaning of the words. Her art was very much influenced by early hurufiyya artists, including Iraqi artist Jawad Salim, Palestinian writer and artist Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Iraqi painter Shakir Hassan al Said, who rejected Western aesthetics and embraced a new art form which was both modern and yet referenced traditional culture, media and techniques.^[20]

Inspired by Japanese leporellos, Adnan also painted landscapes on foldable screens that can be "extended in space like free-standing drawings".^[16]

In 2014, a collection of the artist's paintings and tapestries were exhibited as a part of the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art.^[12]

Adnan's retrospective at in Doha, Qatar, titled "Etel Adnan In All Her Dimensions" and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, featured eleven dimensions of Adnan's practice. It included her early works, her literature, her carpets, and others. The show was launched in March 2014, accompanied by a 580-page catalog of her work published jointly by Mathaf and Skira. The catalog was designed by artist Ala Younis in Arabic and English, and included text contributions by Simone Fattal, Daniel Birnbaum, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, as well as six interviews with Hans-Ulrich Obrist.

In 2015, Adnan's paintings and tapestries were featured in Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible alongside works by Chung Chang Sup, Fahrelnissa Zeid, Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, and Saloua Raouda Choucair as well as contemporary artists such as Julie Mehretu, Haegue Yang, Taro Shinoda, Jac Leirner, and Adrian Villar Rojas, among others.

In 2017, Adnan's work was included in "Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction," a group exhibition organized by MoMA, which brought together prominent artists including Ruth Asawa, Gertrudes Altschul, Anni Albers, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Lygia Clark, and Lygia Pape, among others.^{[21] [22]}

In 2018, MASS MoCA hosted a retrospective of the artist, titled "A yellow sun A green sun a yellow sun A red sun a blue sun", including a selection of paintings in oil and ink, as well as a reading room of her written works.^[23] The exhibition explored how the experience of reading poetry differs from the experience of looking at a painting.^[24]

Published in 2018, "Etel Adnan", a biography of the artist written by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, inquires into the artist's work as a shaman and activist.^{[25] [26]} In 2020, the Griffin Poetry Prize is awarded to her book Time.^[27]

In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.^[28]

Writing

In English

• Shifting the silence, Nightboat, 2020
• Time, Nightboat, 2020
• Surge, Nightboat, 2018
• Night, Nightboat, 2016
• Life Is a Weaving, Galerie Lelong (2016) .
• Premonition, Kelsey Street Press (2014) .
• To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader, edited by Thom Donovan, Brandon Shimoda, Ammiel Alcalay, and Cole Swensen, Nightboat Books (2014)
• Sea and Fog, Nightboat Books (2012)
• Master of the Eclipse (2009)
• Seasons (2008)
• In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country (2005)
• In/somnia (2002)
• There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other (1997)
• To Write in a Foreign Language (1996)
• Of Cities and Women, Letters to Fawwaz (1993)
• Paris, When It's Naked (1993)
• The Spring Flowers Own and the Manifestations of the Voyage (1990)
• The Arab Apocalypse (1989)
• Journey to Mount Tamalpais: An Essay (1985)
• The Indian Never Had a Horse and Other Poems (1985)
• From A to Z Poetry (1982)
• Sitt Marie Rose: A Novel (1978)
• Moon Shots, Sausalito-Belvedere Gazette (1967)^[29]
• "The Enemy's Testament" in Where is Vietnam?, Anchor Books (1967, Walter Lowenfels, ed.,)

In Arabic

• al-Sitt Mari Ruz: riwayah. (Sitt Marie Rose.), with Jirum Shahin and Firyal Jabburi Ghazul. Al-Qahirah: al-Hayah al-Ammah li-Qusur al-Thaqafah, 2000.
• n mudun wa-nisa: rasail il Fawwaz. (Of Cities and Women.) Bayrut: Dar al-Hihar, 1998.
• Kitab al-bahr; kitab al-layal; kitab al-mawt; kitab al-nihayah, with Abid Azarih. Bayrut: Dar Amwaj, 1994.
• al-Sitt Marie Ruz. Bayrut: al-Mu-assasah al-Arabiyah lil-Dirasat wa-al-Nashr, 1979.

In French

• Voyage, guerre, exil, L'Echoppe, 2020
• Un printemps inattendu (entretiens), Galerie Lelong, 2020
• Grandir et devenir poète au Liban, L'Echoppe, 2019
• Tolérance, L'Echoppe, 2018
• Nuit, Editions de l'Attente, 2017
• La vie est un tissage, Galerie Lelong, 2016
• Mer et brouillard, Editions de l'Attente, 2017
• A propos de la fin de l'Empire Ottoman, Galerie Lelong, 2015
• Le Prix que nous ne voulons pas payer pour l'amour, Galerie Lelong, 2015
• Prémonition, Galerie Lelong, 2015
• Là-bas, Editions de l'Attente, 2013
• Paris mis a nu. France: Éditions Tamyras, 2011, translated by Martin Richet.
• Ce ciel qui n'est pas. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997.
• Ce ciel qui n'est pas. Bilingual edition (French-Arabic): Tunis: Tawbad, 2008.
• Rachid Korachi: Ecriture passion, with Rachid Korachi and Jamel-Eddine Bencheikh. Alger: Galerie Mhamed Issiakhem, 1988.
• L'apocalypse arabe. Paris: Papyrus Éditions, 1980.
• Sitt Marie Rose. Paris: Des Femmes, 1978.
• Jbu: Suivi de l'Express Beyrouth enfer. Paris: P.J. Oswald, 1973.

Exhibitions

• 2022 Etel Adnan/Vincent van Gogh - Kleur als Taal, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam^[30]
• 2021 new works, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany^[31]
• Etel Adnan: Light's New Measure, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York ^[32]
• 2020 The uprising of colors, Sfeir-Semler Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon^[33]
• 2020 WO DIE ZITRONEN BLÜHEN..., Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany^[34]
• 2020 Satellites et Planètes, Galerie Lelong & Co, Paris^[35]
• 2019 Leporellos, Galerie Lelong & Co, Paris^[36]
• 2019 Etel Adnan et les modernes, MUDAM, Luxembourg
• 2019 Etel Adnan: Each day is a whole world, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
• 2018 Work: Etel Adnan, SFMOMA, San Francisco
• 2018 Parler aux fleurs, Galerie Lelong & Co, Paris
• 2018 Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Suisse
• 2018 Estampes originales, Galerie Lelong & Co, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
• 2018 Tout ce que je fais est mémoire, Chateau La Coste, Le Puy Ste Réparade, France
• 2018 La Fulgurance du geste, Fondation Jan Michalski, Montricher, Basel, Switzerland
• 2018 Tapisseries et estampes, Galerie Lelong & Co, Paris
• 2017 Sea and Fog, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
• 2017 L'emozione dei COLORI nell'arte, GAM, Castello di Rivoli, Italy
• 2016 Paintings · Drawings · Tapestries · Writing, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany^[37]
• 2016 A Tremendous Astronomer, Galerie Lelong, Paris
• 2016 Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
• 2016 Serpentine Gallery, London
• 2016 Galerie Lelong, Paris

• 2015 Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
• 2015 Galerie Lelong Paris

• 2015 Saltwater, Istanbul Biennale
• 2015 Galerie Lelong, New York
• 2015 Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin
• 2015 Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah Art Museum, UAE
• 2014 Etel Adnan in all her dimensions, MATHAF, Doha, Qatar
• 2014 Writing Mountains, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
• 2014 New Museum, New York
• 2014 Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum, New York
• 2013 Etel Adnan, Sfeir-Semler Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon^[38]
• 2012 Works 1956–2012, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany^[39]
• 2012 DOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany
• 2010 Paintings and Drawings, Sfeir-Semler Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon^[40]

Etel Adnan's works can be found in many collections, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Mathaf, Doha, Qatar, Royal Jordanian Museum, Tunis Modern Art Museum, Sursock Museum, Beirut, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, British Museum, London, M+, and Hong Kong.

Awards and recognition

• 1977: Awarded the France-Pays Arabes award for her novel Sitt Marie Rose.
• 2010: Awarded the Arab American Book Awards for her story collection Master of the Eclipse.^[41]
• 2013: Her poetry collection Sea and Fog won the California Book Award for Poetry.^[42]
• 2013: Awarded the Lambda Literary Award.^[43]
• 2014: Named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.^[44]
• 2015: The Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, begun in 2015, is awarded annually by the University of Arkansas Press for "a first or second book of poetry, in English, by a writer of Arab heritage."^[45]
• 2020: The poetry collection Time, selections of Adnan's work translated from French by Sarah Riggs, wins the Griffin Poetry Prize.^[46]
• 2024: On 15 April 2024, Google celebrated her with a Google Doodle.^{[47] [48]}

Bibliography

• Amireh, Amal; "Bearing Witness: The Politics of Form in Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose." Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, 2005 Fall; 14 (3): 251–63. (journal article)
• Amyuni, Mona Takieddine. "Etel Adnan & Hoda Barakat: De-Centered Perspectives, Subversive Voices." IN: Poetry's Voice-Society's Norms: Forms of Interaction between Middle Eastern Writers and Their Societies. Ed. Andreas Pflitsch and Barbara Winckler. Wiesbaden, Germany: Reichert; 2006. pp. 211–21
• Cassidy, Madeline. "'Love Is a Supreme Violence': The Deconstruction of Gendered Space in Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose." IN: Violence, Silence, and Anger: Women's Writing as Transgression. Ed. Deirdre Lashgari. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia; 1995. pp. 282–90
• Champagne, John G. "Among Good Christian Peoples: Teaching Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose." College Literature, 2000 Fall; 27 (3): 47–70.
• Fernea, Elizabeth. "The Case of Sitt Marie Rose: An Ethnographic Novel from the Modern Middle East." IN: Literature and Anthropology. Ed. Philip Dennis and Wendell Aycock. Lubbock: Texas Tech UP; 1989. pp. 153–164
• Foster, Thomas. "Circles of Oppression, Circles of Repression: Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1995 Jan; 110 (1): 59–74.
• Ghandour, Sabah. "Gender, Postcolonial Subject, and the Lebanese Civil War in Sitt Marie Rose." IN: The Postcolonial Crescent: Islam's Impact on Contemporary Literature. Ed. John C. Hawley. New York, NY: Peter Lang; 1998. pp. 155–65
• Hajjar, Jacqueline A. "Death, Gangrene of the Soul, in Sitt Marie Rose by Etel Adnan." Revue Celfan/Celfan Review, 1988 May; 7 (3): 27–33.
• Hartman, Michelle. "'This Sweet/Sweet Music': Jazz, Sam Cooke, and Reading Arab American Literary Identities." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 2006 Winter; 31 (4): 145–65.
• Karnoub, Elisabeth. "'Une Humanité qui ne cesse de crucifier le Christ': Réécriture du sacrifice christique dans Sitt Marie Rose de Etel Adnan." IN: Victims and Victimization in French and Francophone Literature. Ed. Buford Norman. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi; 2005. pp. 59–71
• Kilpatrick, Hilary. "Interview with Etel Adnan (Lebanon)." IN: Unheard Words: Women and Literature in Africa, the Arab World, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. Ed. Mineke Schipper. Trans. Barbara Potter Fasting. London: Allison & Busby; 1985. pp. 114–120
• Layoun, Mary N. "Translation, Cultural Transgression and Tribute, and Leaden Feet." IN: Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts. Ed. Anuradha Dingwaney and Carol Maier. Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh P; 1995. pp. 267–89
• Majaj, Lisa Suhair. "Voice, Representation and Resistance: Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose." Intersections: Gender, Nation and Community in Arab Women's Novels. Ed. Lisa Suhair Majaj, Paula W. Sunderman and Therese Saliba. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press, 2002. 200–230.
• Majaj, Lisa Suhair and Amal Amireh. Etel Adnan: Critical Essays on the Arab-American Writer and Artist. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co, 2002.
• Marie, Elisabeth Anne. Sacrifice, sacrifiée, sacrificatrice: L'étrange triptyque: Sacrifices au féminin dans trois romans francophones libanais. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2003 May; 63 (11): 3961. U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2002.
• Mejcher-Atassi, Sonja. "Breaking the Silence: Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose and The Arab Apocalypse." IN: Poetry's Voice-Society's Norms: Forms of Interaction between Middle Eastern Writers and Their Societies. Ed. Andreas Pflitsch and Barbara Winckler. Wiesbaden, Germany: Reichert; 2006. pp. 201–10
• Mustafa, Daliya Sa'id (translator). "Al-Kitabah bi-lughah ajnabiyyah." Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 2000; 20: 133-43 (Arabic section); 300-01 (English section).
• Muzaffar, May. "Iytil 'Adnan: Qarinat al-nur wa-al-ma'." Arabi, 2007 Feb; 579: 64–68.
• Obank, Margaret. "Private Syntheses and Multiple Identities." Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature, 1998 June; 2: 59–61.
• Shoaib, Mahwash. "Surpassing Borders and 'Folded Maps': Etel Adnan's Location in There." Studies in the Humanities, 2003 June-Dec; 30 (1-2): 21–28.
• "Vitamin P3." Phaidon Press, 2017.
• Willis, Mary-Angela. "Francophone Literature of the Middle East by Women: Breaking the Walls of Silence." IN: Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures: Critical Essays. Ed. Kamal Salhi. Lanham, MD: Lexington; 2003. pp. 64–74
• Willis, Mary-Angela. La Guerre démasquée à travers la voix féminine dans Sitt Marie Rose d'Etel Adnan et Coquelicot du massacre d'Evelyne Accad. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2002 Mar; 62 (9): 3061. U of Alabama, 2001.

Further reading

Works on Etel Adnan

• Etel Adnan, Leporellos, Galerie Lelong & Co., 2020
• Etel Adnan, Estampes, Galerie Lelong & Co. 2019
• Simone Fattal, Etel Adnan, la peinture comme énergie pure, 2016
• Jean Fremon, Etel Adnan, être là. Galerie Lelong, 2015
• Book: Hirahara . Naomi . 2022-02-07 . We Are Here . Running Press . 978-0-7624-7965-8 . en-US .

External links

• • • Translated excerpt from Sitt Marie Rose
• Culturebase (in German)
• Exploring the fascinating world of Etel Adnan: 7 intriguing facts
• Anne Mullin Burnham, Reflections in Women's Eyes, 1994, Saudi Aramco World
• Etel Adnan's page on Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions
• LaBarge . Emily . At the Van Gogh Museum: Color as Language . . 8 September 2022 . 44 . 17 . 36–37 . 6 October 2022.

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. Amyuni, M.T., "The Secret of Being a Woman' on Etel Adnan's Quest," Al Jadid [A Review & Record of Arab Culture and the Arts], Vol. 4, No. 25, 1998, Online:
3. Book: Great women artists . 2019 . Phaidon Press . 978-0714878775 . 22.
4. Book: Colby, Georgina . 2019 . Reading Experimental Writing . Edinburgh, Scotland . Edinburgh University Press . 15 . 9781474440400.
5. Web site: For Etel Adnan, a show in Turkey is a symbolic homecoming . 3 June 2021 . Apollo Magazine . 2021-10-26.
6. http://www.eteladnan.com/ "Etel Adnan: About"
7. Web site: Etel Adnan: Children of the sun . Bidoun . 2020-12-06.
8. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/etel-adnan "Etel Adnan: Biography"
9. News: Slattery . Dorothy . Nostalgia Markes Yule Season For Students . 11 December 2021 . Daily Independent Journal. San Rafael, California . 22 December 1959 . 19 . Newspapers.com.
10. Book: Myers. Julian. Rabben. Heidi. The Ninth Page: Etel Adnan's Journalism 1972-74. December 2013. CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. San Francisco. 978-0-9849609-3-4. 6–8.
11. Lisa Suhair Majaj and Amal Amireh, Etel Adnan: Critical Essays on the Arab-American Writer and Artist. McFarland & Company, 2001. .
12. http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial/EtelAdnan "Etel Adnan"
13. News: Asfour. Nana. 2021-11-14. Etel Adnan, Lebanese American Author and Artist, Dies at 96. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-11-15. 0362-4331.
14. Web site: 2021-11-14. Etel Adnan obituary: 1925 – 2021. 2021-11-15. Wallpaper.
15. Web site: Etel Adnan: Being and Time . 2024-02-24 . www.wmm.com . en-US.
16. News: Art to inspire: Ali Smith, Alain de Botton and others on the works they love. Jonathan. Jones. Alain de. Botton. Ali. Smith. Natasha. Khan. Eimear. McBride. Hans Ulrich. Obrist. The Guardian . Jan 1, 2017. Jun 9, 2019. www.theguardian.com.
17. http://whitecube.com/exhibitions/etel_adnan_inside_the_white_cube_bermondsey_2014/ Etel Adnan, 8 October – 16 November 2014
18. Smith, Roberta. "Art Show as Unruly Organism" The New York Times, Retrieved 10 April 2014.
19. News: Kim . Gravelle . While You're Out . . Salem, Oregon . 20 February 1965 . 5 . Newspapers.com.
20. Web site: 2003-04-24. Arabic art embraces politics and heritage. 2021-06-01. The Daily Star Newspaper - Lebanon. 2021-06-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213907/https://www.dailystar.com.lb//Culture/Art/2003/Apr-24/102634-arabic-art-embraces-politics-and-heritage.ashx. dead.
21. Web site: Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction. The Museum of Modern Art. en. 2019-03-09.
22. News: At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction. Cotter. Holland. 2017-04-13. The New York Times. 2019-03-09. en-US. 0362-4331.
23. Web site: Etel Adnan. Wilson-Goldie. Kaelen. 4columns.org. 2019-03-09.
24. Web site: New exhibit at Mass MoCA gathers the many sides of Etel Adnan into a whole. The Berkshire Eagle. 4 April 2018 . en. 2019-03-09.
25. Web site: Etel Adnan, the Eternal Voyager, Captured in a New Biography. 2019-03-06. Hyperallergic. en-US. 2019-03-09.
26. Web site: Book paints a picture of Etel Adnan Arts & Ent, Culture THE DAILY STAR. www.dailystar.com.lb. 2019-03-09. 2019-09-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20190909174416/http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Arts-and-Ent/Culture/2018/Aug-29/461506-book-paints-a-picture-of-etel-adnan.ashx. dead.
27. Web site: Griffin Poetry Prize: Time by Sarah Riggs, translated from the French written by Etel Adnan and Magnetic Equator by Kaie Kellough Win the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize. 2020-09-26. Griffin Poetry Prize. en-US. 2020-10-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20201021073944/https://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/time-by-sarah-riggs-translated-from-the-french-written-by-etel-adnan-and-magnetic-equator-by-kaie-kellough-win-the-2020-griffin-poetry-prize/. dead.
28. Web site: Action, Gesture, Paint . Whitechapel Gallery . 15 April 2023 . en.
29. News: Marinite's Poetry Book Is Released . . 1967-01-24 . 4 . Newspapers.com.
30. Web site: Tentoonstelling Kleur als Taal .
31. Web site: new works, Sfeir-Semler Gallery .
32. Web site: Light's New Measure .
33. Web site: The uprising of colors, Sfeir-Semler Gallery .
34. Web site: WO DIE ZITRONEN BLÜHEN..., Sfeir-Semler Gallery .
35. Web site: Satellites et Planètes .
36. Web site: Leporellos .
37. Web site: Paintings · Drawings · Tapestries · Writing, Sfeir-Semler Gallery .
38. Web site: Etel Adnan, Sfeir-Semler Gallery .
39. Web site: Works 1956–2012, Sfeir-Semler Gallery .
40. Web site: Etel Adnan, Sfeir-Semler Gallery .
41. http://www.arabamericanmuseum.org/2010.book.award.winners "2010 Arab American Book Award Winners"
42. Web site: California Book Awards . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20130731123355/http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/special-events/california-book-awards . 2013-07-31 . 2013-07-31.
43. http://lgbtweekly.com/2013/06/04/25th-annual-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced/ "25th annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced"
44. http://www.agendaculturel.com/News_Etel+Adnan_Chevalier_des_Arts_et_des_Lettres "Etel Adnan Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres"
45. Web site: Etel Adnan Poetry Series and Prize . University of Arkansas Press.
46. http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/time-by-sarah-riggs-translated-from-the-french-written-by-etel-adnan-and-magnetic-equator-by-kaie-kellough-win-the-2020-griffin-poetry-prize/ "Time by Sarah Riggs, translated from the French written by Etel Adnan and Magnetic Equator by Kaie Kellough Win the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize"
47. Web site: 15 April 2024 . Celebrating Etel Adnan . 15 April 2024 . Google.
48. Web site: Jalal . Maan . April 15, 2024 . Who is Etel Adnan? Lebanese artist and poet celebrated with Google Doodle . The National.