Mıgırdiç Margosyan

Mıgırdiç Margosyan (born December 23, 1938 in Diyarbakır ) is a Turkish writer and philosopher of Armenian descent.

background

Mıgırdiç Margosyan was born on December 23, 1938 in the Hançepek district (also Gâvur Mahallesi - infidel district) of Diyarbakır. He received his education at the Suleyman Nazif Elementary School and the Ziya Gökalp Middle School in Diyarbakır and continued his education at Armenian schools called Bezciyan Middle School and Getronagan High School in Istanbul . Margosyan studied at the Philosophy Department of the Faculty of Literature at Istanbul University .

Between 1966 and 1972 Mıgırdiç Margosyan worked as the school director of the Armenian Surp-Haç-Tıbrevank University and taught philosophy, psychology, Armenian language and literature. He later started commercial activities.

Writing career

Margosyan published a large number of short stories in Armenian in the Marmara newspaper , some of them were collected and published under the name Mer Ayt Goğmeri ( Turkish Bizim O Yöreler ) in 1984. In 1988 Margosyan received the Eliz Kavukçuyan Literature Award in the French capital Paris , which is given to authors who write in Armenian. Margosyan published Gâvur Mahallesi in 1992 , Söyle Margos Nerelisen in 1995? and 1998 Biletimiz İstanbul'a Kesildi (1998) in Turkish and in 1999 published his second book Dikrisi Aperen (Turkish Dicle Kıyılarından ) in Armenian. His book Gâvur Mahallesi was translated into Kurdish and published in 1999 with the title Li ba me, Li wan deran by Avesta Publishing in Istanbul.

Margosyan's article for the daily Evrensel was published in 1999 under the name Çengelliiğne . Today he is writing the column Kirveme Mektuplar for Evrensel , which was published in a book of the same name in 2006, and for Agos .

Mıgırdiç Margosyan's last book, the autobiographical novel Tespih Taneleri , was published in 2006. In 2012 he joined the Halkların Demokratik Partisi .

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• Official website of the Aras Yayıncılık - MIGIRDİÇ MARGOSYAN

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Mıgırdiç Margosyan. (No longer available online.) Aras Yayıncılık, archived from the original on April 1, 2008 ; Retrieved November 30, 2010 (Turkish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.