Andranik Zarukjan
Andranik Zarukjan ( Armenian Անդրանիկ Ծառուկեան Antranig Dzarougian , reformed Անդրանիկ Ծառուկյան Andranik Tsarukyan , * 1913 in Gürün , Sivas Vilayet , Ottoman Empire , † 1989 in Beirut , Lebanon ) was an influential Armenian diaspora writer , poet, educator and journalist of the 20th century.
Life
Zarukjan's father "Tschelo Toros" was one of the fighters of the Armenian Fedayeen against the Ottoman army . During the years of the Armenian genocide , Zarukjan was separated from his mother on the death marches in the Syrian desert and spent his childhood in an Armenian orphanage in Aleppo . In 1921 he met his mother again in Aleppo and moved to the local Haygazian school. In the same year his father was arrested and murdered in Marash prison for participating in the Armenian patriotic movement.
Zarukjan moved to Beirut to continue his education at the newly opened Armenian College. Among his teachers were celebrities such as Nikol Aghbalian and Levon Schant . After graduation, Zarukjan began his career teaching at Armenian schools in Aleppo and Beirut. From 1950 he published the weekly literary newspaper Nayiri in Beirut.
His best-known works “People without a Childhood” ( Մանկութիւն Չունեցող Մարդիկ ) and “Wonderful Aleppo” ( Երազային Հալէպը ) are autobiographies dedicated to his childhood life in the orphanage in Aleppo.
Dzarugian visited the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic for the first time in 1956. His impressions from this trip to his homeland are reproduced in his book "Old Dreams, New Paths" ( Հին Երազներ Նոր Ճամբաներ ).
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- Dzarougian: 'Ethereal Aleppo'
- Hrach Kalsahakian translations
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zarukjan, Andranik |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dzarougian, Antranig; Tsarukyan, Andranik; Ծառուկեան, Անդրանիկ (Armenian); Ծառուկյան, Անդրանիկ (Armenian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian writer, poet, educator and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gürün , Ottoman Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1989 |
| Place of death | Beirut , Lebanon |