Yevprime Avedisian
Yevprime Avedisian (Armenian: Եւփրիմէ Աւետիսեան, 1872–1950), also known by her pen name Annais, Anais or Anayis, was an Armenian poet and short story writer. Writing poems about the female body and sexual desire, she contributed to literary journals in Istanbul and Paris. She is remembered in particular for her autobiography ''Յուշերս'' (''My Recollections''), Paris, 1949. She participated in salons in the Ottoman Empire as they allowed women to mix with men without being considered disreputable. Avedisian's date of birth has not been firmly established. The years 1863 and 1872 are the most probable. In his 1973 Biographical Dictionary (Կենսագրական բառարան), G. Stepanyan gives it as 1872. Born in Istanbul, Constantinople, Yevprime Hagop Avedisian was a member of the Chopanyan family from Kemaliye in Eastern Anatolia. After studying at the Armenian Makruhyats School, she attended the Fourier School in order to improve her French and took ...
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