Rouben Melik (; 14 November 1921 – 21 May 2007) was a French-Armenian poet and a member of the
French Resistance. Officer of
Ordre des Arts et Lettres (1963).
Rouben Melik studied in
Sorbonne with
Gaston Bachelard, before his entrance to the literature under the aegis of the Resistance. One year after the publication in 1941 of ''Variations of triptyches'', he joined the
French Communist Party where he became a friend of
Paul Eluard
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, alongside the
Manouchian
Missak Manouchian (Western Armenian, Western hy, Միսաք Մանուշեան; , 1 September 1906 – 21 February 1944) was a Armenians in France, French-Armenian poet and communist activist. An Armenian genocide survivor, he moved to France ...
group and took part in the liberation of
Paris. After the war, he founded "Armenian Youth of France" organization.
Winner of Apollinaire prize in 1948.
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1921 births
2007 deaths
French people of Armenian descent
University of Paris alumni
French male poets
20th-century French poets
Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
20th-century French male writers
Prix Guillaume Apollinaire winners
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