Siamanto
Atom Jartschanjan ( Armenian Ատոմ Եարճանեան , born August 15, 1878 in Eğin , Ottoman Empire ; † August 1915 ), better known by his pseudonym Siamanto (Սիամանթօ, also written Siamantho ), was an Ottoman-Armenian writer, poet and national hero who alongside Daniel Waruschan is considered one of the outstanding authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was an important representative of Armenian symbolism, influenced by French models, and was a victim of the Armenian genocide in 1915/1916.
Life
Atom Jartschanjan lived until the age of 14 in his birthplace Eğin on the banks of the Western Euphrates . He got his nickname Siamanto from the director of the school there. In 1891 he moved with his family, who belonged to the affluent bourgeoisie, to Istanbul , where he completed his education at the Berberian School in 1896 and fled to Egypt in the same year as a result of the Hamid massacre .
In 1897 he moved to Paris , began studying literature at the Sorbonne , and established relationships with local Armenian intellectuals. From Paris he moved on to Geneva and published his first literary works in the newspaper Droshak , the press organ of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation , under the headings Heroic (Armenian: Դիւցազնօրէն) and Des Ritters Lied (Armenian: Ասպետին Երգը). After a hospital stay in Geneva in 1904 due to pneumonia, Siamanto recovered and spent the next four years in various European cities.
In 1908 he returned to Istanbul in the hope that things would improve after the Young Turkish Revolution . However, these hopes were dashed in the Adana massacre in 1909, whereupon Siamanto wrote his collection of poems Bloody news from my friend (Armenian: Կարմիր լուրեր բարեկամէս). In 1910 he moved to the USA as editor of an Armenian newspaper and returned to Istanbul the following year. In 1913 he made a trip to Tbilisi and on the way visited Mount Ararat , the monastery of Khor Virap and Echmiadzin .
death
He was arrested, imprisoned, tortured and then finally murdered on “Red Sunday” , April 24, 1915, together with Rupen Sevag and Krikor Zohrab .
Works (in translation)
- Bloody news from my friend. Poems by Siamanto . Translation: Peter Balakian , Nevart Yaghlian. Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1996, ISBN 0-8143-2640-4 .
- Rendered into English verse. Translation: Alice Stone Blackwell
literature
- Alice Stone Blackwell: To Armenian poet, Siamanto . In: Poet lore . Vol. 28 (1917), No. 2, pp. 231-241.
- Siamanto (Atom Yarchanian) In: Agop J. Hacikyan u. a. (Ed.): The Heritage of Armenian Literature. Volume 3, Wane State University Press, Detroit 2005, ISBN 978-0-8143-3221-4 , pp. 774 ff.
- NA: Արդի հայական գրականութիւն, Գ հատոր, [Modern Armenian literature, Volume III]. 2003, pp. 68-74.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agop J. Hacikyan (Ed.): The Heritage of Armenian Literature . 2005, p. 776 : "In 1915 he was rounded up with other intellectuals by the Turkish authorities, sent to the interior, and brutally killed."
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siamanto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jarschanian, Atom; Cherjanian, Atom; Jardamjan, Atom; Եարճանեան, Ատոմ (Armenian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian poet and victim of genocide |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eğin , Vilâyet Mamuretül-Aziz , Ottoman Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1915 |