Kegham Mihran Atmadjian ( hy, Գեղամ Միհրանի Աթմաճյան, literary

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''Sema'', November 18, 1910 – May 18, 1940) was a French-Armenian poet and editor.

Biography

Being a survivor of the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was ...

, Atmadjian lived in orphanages in Turkey and

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. In 1929 he moved to Paris, where he published the Armenian cultural magazine "Jank" (Effort), together with

Missak Manouchian Missak Manouchian (Western hy, Միսաք Մանուշեան; , 1 September 1906 – 21 February 1944) was a French-Armenian poet and communist activist. An Armenian genocide survivor, he moved to France from an orphanage in Lebanon in 1925. H ...

. In 1935–1937 he published another Armenian magazine, "Mshaguyt" (Culture), with Bedros Zaroyan. He was the author of poems, plays, short stories, and articles. In 1940 he was killed during his service in the French army at the outbreak of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. His sister Marie Atmadjian, a poet by herself, wrote memoirs about him.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Atmadjian, Kegham 1910 births 1940 deaths People from Bafra 20th-century French male writers Armenian male poets French male poets 20th-century Armenian poets 20th-century French poets French people of Armenian descent Armenians from the Ottoman Empire Armenian genocide survivors Syrian emigrants to France French Army personnel killed in World War II