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Which poet wrote his most famous work while in exile?

exile

[eg-zahyl, ek-sahyl] / ˈɛg zaɪl, ˈɛk saɪl /




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Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado returned to her home country Sunday after nearly a year in exile, greeting ecstatic supporters at a church in the city of Barquisimeto.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

“Our sovereign voice returns with her to lead and guide this process!” wrote Edmundo González, Machado’s close ally, who is in exile in Spain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

This week, thousands demonstrated in Caracas and other cities, demanding her return from exile in Panama.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Thomas, an outspoken critic of Nazism, leading to his exile, believes that his public appearances can unite the country he loves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The day Aziz became an exile is also the day she lost her father, the great khan, forever.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

In the 1930s and 1940s, postrevolutionary Mexico emerged as both an incubator of modern art and haven for European refugees, political exiles and other expats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

For a woman who Hollywood exiles into the Nevada desert, only for her to build an empire and return to Los Angeles to conquer the industry, besting cancer should be a cinch.

From Salon ● May 29, 2026

The 91,000 registered voters include Buddhist monks in the high Himalayas, political exiles in South Asia's megacities and refugees in Australia, Europe and North America.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

In 1961, about 1,400 Cuban exiles trained by the Central Intelligence Agency landed at the Bay of Pigs on Cuba’s southern coast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

“By they, you mean the slavers, the exiles she drove from Astapor and Meereen. Mere calumnies.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The CIA had been aware of the al-Qaeda network and its exiled Saudi leader, Osama Bin Laden, for years prior to 2001.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

María Corina Machado, the exiled leader of the Venezuelan opposition and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, on Thursday raised her own worries about what the oil deal means for the future of Venezuela.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

"With climate change intensifying, there is no indication that such hazards will stop," said Dhondup Wangmo, a research fellow at the Tibet Policy Institute, a thinktank linked to the exiled Tibetan government in India.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

The exiled Russian writer Nina Berberova ecstatically recalled touring Rome with Muratov as her guide: “He loved Italy and taught me to love it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

My baba, Ali, joined the protests, and eventually the shah was exiled.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

In 1952 his re-entry permit to the U.S. was revoked, effectively exiling him for nearly 20 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

And how can they transplant themselves without exiling the working-class natives whose culture and labor the city cannot survive without?

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2022

He said that invading forces had ransacked his offices, exiling his team to another location where they are attempting to continue running their city.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2022

She also heeds Logan's orders, exiling Kendall, her own child, from her party to accommodate her ex-husband, who won't be seen with him.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2021

Bitter local officials pushed through an ordinance banning automobiles from the Stanford campus and all tourist areas, effectively exiling them from the city.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand


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