Etel Adnan, who turns 90 on February 24, 2015, is one of the most important literary voices of our world. As nomadic as she is cosmopolitan, her life has been a journey between East and West, old and new languages, poetry, literature, and painting: a journey full of discoveries, confronted with ever-new wars, full of memories. In "Conversations with My Soul," what runs through Etel Adnan's entire writing culminates: a poetic-philosophical inner dialogue. How does one speak with their own soul? The soul, says Etel Adnan, is a distinct being that one may never have thought about, yet suddenly makes its presence known: "I cannot help but speak with this soul as if it were a lifelong companion. We were one, and we were different. How did we encounter each other? What did we do to one another?" Etel Adnan has spent her life.