Silwa Kaputikjan

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Silwa Kaputikjan
Grave of Silwa Kaputikjan in the Gomidas pantheon

Sirward Barunaki "Silwa" Kaputikjan ( Armenian Սիլվա Կապուտիկյան , born January 20, 1919 in Yerevan , First Republic of Armenia ; died August 25, 2006 ibid.) Was a famous Armenian poet, writer, academic and public activist. She is considered "the leading poet of Armenia".

Life

She was born in Yerevan into a family who fled the genocide of the Armenians from Van in what is now Turkey . She lived there for the rest of her life. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Yerevan State University , and studied the advanced courses of the Gorky Institute of World Literature .

She made her literary debut in the 1930s and published her first collection of poems in 1945. It included “Chosk im Wordun” ( A Word to My Son ), which is considered one of Kaputikjan’s most popular poems.

The two main themes of her works were poetry and national identity. Kaputikjan, whose ancestors were refugees from Van, commemorates their martyrdom in “Hin karote” ( The old longing , 1992). Her poem Reflections on Halfway commemorates the bloody genocide of the Armenians . She was recognized as the leading poet of Armenia.

She also wrote two popular travel books, Karavany ešte v puti ( The caravans are still on the move ) and A Mosaic Composed of the Soul and the Map , dedicated to her visits to the Diaspora communities .

Her works have been translated by Bulat Okudschawa , Yevgeny Yevtushenko , Bella Akhmadulina , Desanka Maksimović and others. She was awarded the official titles of "Renowned Master of the Arts" of the Armenian SSR (1970) and "Renowned Worker of the Arts" of the Georgian SSR (1980), the State Awards of the USSR (1952) and the Armenian SSR (1988), the Italian “Nosside” Prize, the Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots (Armenia) and the “Knyaginia Olga” ( Ukraine ). Kaputikjan was an academic at the Armenian National Academy of Sciences and a member of the International PEN .

She was one of the leaders of the Karabakh Movement. In February 1988, during an audience at the Moscow Kremlin , President Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa said they admired Kaputikjan's great poetry.

Kaputikjan appeared as herself in the 1992 documentary Parajanov: The Last Spring , about Sergei Parajanov , a filmmaker of Armenian descent who was persecuted by the Soviet authorities. On April 14, 2004, she wrote an open letter called Kocharyan Must Go , in which she spoke against President Robert Kocharyan's harsh methods against the demonstrations of December 12th and 13th. April 2004 protested, and returned the Mesrop Mashtots Medal, which Kocharyan awarded her in 1999.

Silwa Kaputikjan died of a stroke in the Armenian capital Yerevan at the age of 87.

Works (selection)

  • With the days. 1945.
  • My intimates. 1953.
  • Candid conversation. 1955.
  • Bon Voyage. 1957.
  • Midway Reflections. 1961.
  • Seven stations. 1966.
  • My Page. 1968.
  • Toward the Mountain's Depths. 1972.
  • Lilith. 1981.
  • Winter is coming. 1983.

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Web links

Wikiquote: Silwa Kaputikjan (Armenian)  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sabrina P Ramet: Religion and nationalism in Soviet and East European politics . Duke University Press, S. 189 .
  2. ↑ Kevork B. Bardakjian (Ed.): A Reference Guide to Modern Armenian Literature, 1500-1920: With an Introductory History . Wayne State University Press , Detroit 2000, ISBN 0-8143-2747-8 , pp. 229 .
  3. ↑ Kevork B. Bardakjian: A Reference Guide to Modern Armenian Literature. 2000, p. 229.
  4. ^ Richard G. Hovannisian: Looking Backward, Moving Forward. 2003.
  5. ↑ Kevork B. Bardakjian: A Reference Guide to Modern Armenian Literature. 2000, p. 229.
  6. ↑ Profile of Kaputikyan ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Persons.am @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.persons.am
  7. ^ F. Barringer, B. Keller: A Test of Change Explodes in Soviet Union. In: The New York Times . March 11, 1988.
  8. ↑ Сильва Капутикян
  9. ↑ Kocharyan Must Go. In: Shrjadardz Armenian Magazine. # 2, 2004, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Kaputikjan, Silwa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaputikkan, Sirward Barunaki; Kaputikyan, Silva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian writer, poet and academic
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Yerevan , Democratic Republic of Armenia
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2006
Place of death Yerevan , Armenia