Paroujr Sewak

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Paroujr Sewak's memorial stone on Kasjan Street in Yerevan

Paroujr Sewak ( Armenian Պարույր Սևակ , Russian Паруйр Севак ); (* 24. January 1924 as Paroujr Rafajeli Ghasarjan ( Armenian Պարույր Ռաֆայելի Ղազարյան , Russian Паруйр Рафаэлович Казарян Parujr Rafaelowitsch Kasarjan ) in Tschan Eight Schin in Ararat - Rajon in Yerevan ; † 17th June 1971 in Yerevan) was an Armenian - Soviet poet and literary scholar .

Life

Paroujr, son of Rafajel Ghasarjan and his wife Anahit nee. Soghomonjan, after graduating from school in 1940, studied at the Yerevan State University (JerGU) in the Department of Armenian Language and Literature of the Philological Faculty . After graduating in 1945 he began postgraduate at the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic . Paroujr's first poems appeared in the magazine Soviet Literature . The editorial staff advised him to use a pseudonym , as his family name Ghazaryan did not fit a poet. After the admired Ruben Sewak , he chose Paroujr Sewak as his pseudonym. The volume of poetry The Immortals rule was published in 1948. He married his fellow student Maja Awagjan and had a son. A divorce took place after a few years.

Paroujr went to Moscow in 1951 and studied at the Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature . He married Nina Menagarishvili and had two sons. In 1955 he finished his studies and now taught there and worked as a translator until 1959. In 1954, the poetry collection Ways of Love was published and in 1957, Wieder mit Dir . In 1959 he created the verse epic The Never Silent Bell Tower for the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 , the main character of which is the composer Komitas and which was illustrated by Grigor Chandschjan . Paroujr's parents had fled from western Turkish Armenia at the time .

Stamp of the Armenian Post (2000) with Adonz , Abeghjan, Tumanyan , Adscharjan , Emin , Lalajan , Waruschan , Sewak and Saroyan

In 1960 Paroujr returned to Yerevan. 1963–1971 he worked as a senior assistant at the Abeghjan Institute for Literature. He was also secretary of the Armenian Writers Union. In 1963 the volume of poems Man on the palm of the hand was published and in 1969 Let there be light! In 1965, on the 50th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, he wrote the poem The Three-Part Liturgy . He translated into Armenian works by Pushkin , Lermontow , Esenin , Blok , Janka Kupala , Rainis , Brjussow , Abashidze , Mayakowski , Mieželaitis and by Hungarian poets among others.

1966-1970 Paroujr was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR . In 1967 he received his doctorate in science . In 1968 he was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.

In 1971, while driving home to Yerevan, Paroujr and his wife were killed in a collision with a truck. Since Paroujr had previously expressed criticism of the corruption , it is believed that the accident was arranged by the KGB . Paroujr and his wife were buried in the courtyard of the house where he was born, which is now a museum.

In 1983 Junna Petrovna Moriz dedicated the first part of her poem to Armenia to the poet Paroujr Sewak, while the second part is dedicated to the painter Minas Avetissjan .

Honors

Web links

Commons : Paroujr Sewak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parujr Sewak . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1986.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Армянская энциклопедия фонда "Хайазг": Паруйр Севак (accessed on May 2, 2017).
  3. ↑ Михо Мосулишвили: Кто такой Паруйр Севак? (accessed on May 2, 2017).
  4. ↑ НЕУМОЛКАЕМАЯ КОЛОКОЛЬНЯ - ТРЕЗВОН ГЕНОЦИДА (accessed on May 2, 2017).
  5. ↑ Parujr Sewak: Let there be light! Tigran Mec, Yerevan 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028273-7 .
  6. ↑ Malkasian, Mark: Gha-ra-bagh !: The Emergence of the National Democratic Movement in Armenia . Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1996, ISBN 978-0-8143-2604-6 , pp. 215 .
  7. ^ Holding, Nicholas: Armenia with Nagorno Karabagh: The Bradt Travel Guide . Bradt Travel Guides, Guilford 2006, ISBN 1-84162-163-3 , pp. 40 .
personal data
SURNAME Sewak, Paroujr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ghasarjan, Paroujr Rafajeli (birth name); Պարույր Սևակ (hyS); Севак, Паруйр (Russian); Պարույր Ռաֆայելի Ղազարյան (hyS); Казарян, Паруйр Рафаэлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian-Soviet poet and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Tschanachtschin , Ararat - Rajon near Yerevan
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 1971
Place of death Yerevan