Ardashes Harutiunian (Արտաշէս Յարութիւնեան, also used pen-names ''Manishak, Ban, Shahen-Garo and Garo'', 1873, Malkara, near Rodosto (now

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– 16 August 1915) was an

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poet, a self-educated translator from French and literary critic."Tseghin sirte",

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, Arevik publ., 1991, , p. 706 (biography in Armenian)

Life

Since 1912 he lived in

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(

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), where he worked as a teacher and contributed to

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newspapers. He published his first book of poems, ''Լքուած քնար'' (Abandoned Lyre), in 1902, followed by two new volumes, ''Երկունք'' (Birth) and ''Նոր քնար'' (New Lyre), in 1906 and 1912, respectively. He was one of the first literary critics of contemporary Armenian poets like Misak Medzarents,

Daniel Varujan Daniel Varoujan ( hy, Դանիէլ Վարուժան, 20 April 188426 August 1915) was an Armenian poet of the early 20th century. At the age of 31, when he was reaching international stature, he was deported and murdered by the Young Turk gover ...

and

Siamanto Atom Yarchanian ( hy, Ատոմ Եարճանեան), better known by his pen name Siamanto (Սիամանթօ) (15 August 1878 – August 1915), was an influential Armenian writer, poet and national figure from the late 19th century and early 20th ...

. During the

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, he stayed in Scutari (

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) on 24 April 1915. He was then arrested on 28 July 1915 and severely beaten at the Müdüriyet. When his father came to see him he was imprisoned as well. Father and son were both deported together with 26 Armenians to

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(modern

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) and jailed in the

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church that was converted into a prison. They were both stabbed to death together with his father near Derbent on 16 August 1915.Teotoros Lapçinciyan (

Teotig Teotoros "Teotig" Labdjindjian ( hy, Թեոդորոս "Թէոդիկ" Լապճինճեան, 1873; Üsküdar, Constantinople (Istanbul), Ottoman Empire – 1928; Paris, France) was an Armenian writer and publisher best known for his Armenian langu ...

): ''Ամէնուն Տարեցոյցը. Ժ-ԺԴ. Տարի. 1916-1920. veryman's Almanac. 10.-14. Year. 1916-1920', G. Keshishian press, Constantinople 1920 After Harutiunian's death his poems were published in separate books in Paris (1937) and Yerevan (1968). The main topics of his poetry are love, romantics and humanism ("The Tramp in the Night", "Dawn", "Windows").

References

Sources

*"Armenian Question", encyclopedia, ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996, p. 283 *"Tseghin sirte",

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, Arevik publ., 1991, , p. 706 (biography in Armenian) *The Heritage of Armenian Literature: Volume III—From the Eighteenth Century to Modern Times, Edited by Agop J. Hacikyan, Edward S. Franchuk, Nourhan Ouzounian, and Gabriel Basmajian {{DEFAULTSORT:Harutunian, Ardashes 1873 births 1915 deaths 20th-century Armenian poets People who died in the Armenian genocide Armenians from the Ottoman Empire Armenian male poets 20th-century male writers