Indra (poet)
Indra or Intra ( Diran Çırakyan ; * 1875 in Istanbul , Ottoman Empire , † 1921 ) was an Armenian- Ottoman poet, writer, painter and teacher. His pseudonym is an anagram of his first name.
Diran Çırakyan was trained in the Armenian Retheos-Berberian College of Istanbul. He then worked as a teacher in Istanbul and Trabzon and made trips to Paris , Geneva and Egypt . He later resumed teaching in Istanbul. In 1906 he published a work that was reviled by critics. Other works followed.
Çırakyan initially escaped persecution of the Armenians in the course of the Armenian genocide , but from 1915 Indra was psychologically shattered and traveled through Anatolia as a vagabond . In 1921 he was picked up by supporters of the Turkish national movement under Mustafa Kemal Pascha and sent into exile. He died shortly after crossing the Tigris .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agop J. Hacikyan et al. (Ed.): The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the eighteenth century to modern times , Detroit 2005, p. 723
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| SURNAME | Indra |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Intra; Chrakian, Diran; Çırakyan, Diran |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian-Ottoman poet, writer, painter and teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul , Ottoman Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1921 |