Zareh Yaldizciyan (10 May 192420 February 2007), Զարէհ Եալտըզճեան, better known by his
pen name
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Zahrad ( hy, Զահրատ), was a poet who lived in
Turkey
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and wrote poems in the
Armenian language
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Biography
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descent, Zahrad was born in the
Nişantaşı district of
Istanbul
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,
Turkey
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.
His father, Movses, had been a jurist, adviser, and translator for the
Ottoman Foreign Ministry.
However, he had lost his father at the age of three.
His mother, Ankine, was from the district of
Samatya
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. Zahrad grew up with his maternal grandfather Levon Vartanyan.
In 1942 he graduated from
Özel Pangaltı Ermeni Lisesi, the local
Mechitarist Armenian lyceum.
He attended the Faculty University of Medicine in Istanbul but left in order to work.
Due to the fear that his family wouldn't appreciate the fact that he wanted to be a poet, he changed his pen name to "Zahrad". In November 1963, he married Anayis Antreasian.
Legacy
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, the president of the
Writers Union of Armenia
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1930s
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, characterized Zahrad as "the huge oak tree of diasporan poetry, whose literary heritage had a deep and stable influence upon modern poetry of not only the diaspora, but also Armenia." Writer and journalist
Rober Haddeciyan
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is quoted as saying, "all the roads taken by our poems don't lead to Rome, but to Zahrad".
His poetry has been translated into 22 languages.
President of Armenia
Robert Kocharian
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has awarded Zahrad with the
Movses Khorenatsi medal for his contribution to Armenian literature and culture.
Works
* «Մեծ քաղաքը» (''Big City'', Istanbul, 1960)
* «Գունաւոր սահմաններ» (''Colored Borders'', Istanbul, 1968)
* «Բարի Երկինք» (''Kind Sky'', Istanbul, 1971)
* «Կանանչ հող» (''Green Soil'',
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, 1976)
* «Մէկ քարով երկու գարուն» (''Two Springs with One Stone'', Istanbul, 1989)
* «Մաղ մը ջուր» (''A Sieve of Water'', Istanbul, 1995)
* «Ծայրը ծայրին» (''A Tight Fit'', Istanbul, 2001)
* «Ջուրը պատէն վեր» (''Water Up the Wall'', Istanbul, 2004)
*«Մարկոս եւ Մարկոս» (''Marc and Marc'', ?, ?)
Notes and references
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1924 births
2007 deaths
Writers from Istanbul
20th-century Armenian poets
Turkish people of Armenian descent
Armenian male poets
20th-century male writers
Burials at Şişli Armenian Cemetery