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Etel Adnan wrote primarily in which language?

  • French

  • Arabic

  • English

  • German

Answer

French was Etel Adnan's primary literary language. Born in Lebanon to a Greek father and a Turkish mother, Adnan grew up multilingual, but she chose French as the language for her writing. She believed that French allowed her to express her complex cultural identity and explore themes of displacement, loss, and the search for home.
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