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Born in Damascus to a middle class merchant family.
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Tawfiq, the father of Nizar, was the owner of a Chocolate factory, and the Arabian writer Abu Khalil Qabbani was his great uncle.
He had five siblings,including sisters Haifa and Wisal, as well as brothers Rashid, Sabah, Mu'taz.
Nizar studied at the national scientific college school which was owned by his father's friend Ahmad Munif Al-Aidi. -
He moved to Damascus university to persue his studies in law. He started writing poetry during his time in Damascus university.
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nizar served at the forgein ministry of syria as an ambassador to cairo , instanbul , madrid , and london , after completing his L.L.B from damas uni.
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by the 1948-1950s he started with his poem " childhood of a breast " & followed it with 2 others named " samba " and " you are mine '
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by the 1948-1950s he started with his poem " childhood of a breast " & followed it with 2 others named " samba " and " you are mine '
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nizar wrote 3 poems which were " my beloved " " drawing the world " ' diary of an indifferent woman "
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nizar put an end to his diplomatic year and continued with his poetic work
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he founded his publishing house and named it munshurat nizar qabbani. arab-israel war the theme of his poems after arabs losing the war.
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which included : savage poems
book of love
100 love letters
poems against law
to beirut the feminine
with my love
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This poet got married for the second time in 1973 to a woman named Balqis al-Rawi. He had encountered her at a poetry concert in Baghdad. However, in 1981, she became the victim of a bombardment during the ‘Lebanese Civil War’ in Beirut and lost her life.
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in the 1980s it was his prolific years because he penned almost a dozen publications like " I write the of women like so " " the lover's dictionary " and " a poem for balqis " which was for his 2nd wife .
by the same decade he also released " love does not stop " " insane poems " " poems inciting anger " " love shall remain my lord " " the trilogy of the children of the stones " and so on.. -
During the early 1990s, Nizar produced poems such as ‘Do You Hear the Cry of My Sadness?’, ‘Marginal Notes on the Book of Defeat’, ‘I’m One Man and you are a Tribe of Women’, ‘Fifty Years of Praising Women’, ‘Nizarian Variations of Arabic Maqam of Love’ and ‘Alphabet of Jasmine’.
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During the early 1990s, Nizar produced poems such as ‘Do You Hear the Cry of My Sadness?’, ‘Marginal Notes on the Book of Defeat’, ‘I’m One Man and you are a Tribe of Women’, ‘Fifty Years of Praising Women’, ‘Nizarian Variations of Arabic Maqam of Love’ and ‘Alphabet of Jasmine’.
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Nizar Qabbani, who left life as a Syrian diplomat to become one of the Arab world's greatest poets, died today in London, where he lived. He was 75. The cause was a heart attack, his family said.May 1, 1998
