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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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Machado, 59, has been in exile since covertly leaving her South American homeland late last year to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Machado has been in exile since covertly leaving her South American homeland in late 2025 to receive her Nobel Peace Prize.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Rincón, 62 years old, was arrested after returning from exile in Panama.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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

“When bears act like bears, perhaps they can’t. No bear would normally drink spirits. Iorek Byrnison drank to forget the shame of exile, and it was only that which let the Trollesund people trick him.”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Some of the exiles arrested by U.S. agents in recent months had been welcomed with open arms by the U.S. government just three years ago under a novel deal negotiated by the State Department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Xi's visit was the target of protests by dozens of Tibetans in New Delhi, exiles like their Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since fleeing a Chinese crackdown in 1959.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

Those frantically trying to find out about family members included Venezuelans in Doral, Fla., which has one of the largest communities of exiles in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

But the truth is that we are both exiles and will never go home again.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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

It has labelled the exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, a separatist.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 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

A taboo-breaking book about Vladimir Putin's rise to power and private life, written by two exiled Russian journalists, won a newly established French literary prize on Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

At first, he’d said, the Svalbard bears regarded Lord Asriel as being no different from any of the other politicians, kings, or troublemakers who had been exiled to their bleak island.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

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

The exiling of “Jingle Bells” was first reported by writer Peter Lovenheim in the Rochester Beacon, an online publication.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 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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